Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at Sanford USD Medical Center
1305 W 18th St, Sioux Falls, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1821017880
$104.84
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$131.04
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$11.37 with Sanford Health Plan vs $50.45 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $11.37 | ↓ -89% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $12.97 | ↓ -88% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $13.38 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $14.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $15.26 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $16.77 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $17.78 | ↓ -83% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $23.65 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $28.94 | ↓ -72% |
| Medica | Choice | $28.98 | ↓ -72% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $30.22 | ↓ -71% |
| Medica | Elect | $31.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $32.90 | ↓ -69% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $37.29 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $37.88 | ↓ -64% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $38.70 | ↓ -63% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $38.70 | ↓ -63% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $38.70 | ↓ -63% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $40.04 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $40.43 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $40.43 | ↓ -61% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $40.43 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $40.43 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $40.43 | ↓ -61% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $41.21 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $49.27 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial | $50.45 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellmark | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center | Canton | $168.80 | $72.16 – $189.90 |
| Sanford Vermillion Hospital | Vermillion | $171.20 | $63.13 – $192.60 |
| Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | not published | $37.29 – $41.21 |