Calcium chloride 100 mg/ml (10 %) intravenous syringe at Sanford Vermillion Hospital

20 S Plum St, Vermillion, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1790721280

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 4, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$82.63

Cash price

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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.

$103.28

Gross charge

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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.

$24.25 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $73.98 with First Choice Health Network — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Sanford Health Plan Align Medicare Replacement $24.25 ↓ -71%
Wellmark SD Medicare Replacement $24.99 ↓ -70%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $26.80 ↓ -68%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $27.13 ↓ -67%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $27.13 ↓ -67%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $27.13 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $27.13 ↓ -67%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $27.62 ↓ -67%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange True $32.54 ↓ -61%
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/True $37.11 ↓ -55%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $38.29 ↓ -54%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $43.66 ↓ -47%
Security Health Plan Commercial $45.21 ↓ -45%
Health Partners State Employees $54.25 ↓ -34%
Health Partners Commercial $61.65 ↓ -25%
Medica Choice $67.82 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Commercial +20 $68.64 ↓ -17%
Wellmark PPO $70.69 ↓ -14%
Aetna Commercial $71.43 ↓ -14%
Ucare Commercial $72.22 ↓ -13%
Medica Elect $72.50 ↓ -12%
Healthez Commercial $73.98 ↓ -10%
Multiplan Commercial $73.98 ↓ -10%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $73.98 ↓ -10%

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Calcium chloride 100 mg/ml (10 %) intravenous syringe at other South-dakota hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center Clear Lake $67.18 $39.27 – $68.90
Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls $318.57 $104.70 – $356.25
Sanford Hospital Webster Webster $66.40 $26.06 – $74.69
Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center Chamberlain $68.11 $27.51 – $72.41
Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center Canton $66.36 $28.37 – $74.65

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