Triglycerides 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

$36.80

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.

$46.00

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.

$9.15 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $27.90 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 $9.15 ↓ -75%
Wellmark SD Medicare Replacement $9.42 ↓ -74%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $10.11 ↓ -73%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $10.23 ↓ -72%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $10.23 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $10.23 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $10.23 ↓ -72%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $10.42 ↓ -72%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange True $12.27 ↓ -67%
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/True $13.99 ↓ -62%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $14.44 ↓ -61%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $16.46 ↓ -55%
Security Health Plan Commercial $17.05 ↓ -54%
Health Partners State Employees $20.46 ↓ -44%
Health Partners Commercial $23.25 ↓ -37%
Medica Choice $25.58 ↓ -30%
United Healthcare Commercial +20 $25.89 ↓ -30%
Wellmark PPO $26.66 ↓ -28%
Aetna Commercial $26.94 ↓ -27%
Ucare Commercial $27.24 ↓ -26%
Medica Elect $27.34 ↓ -26%
Healthez Commercial $27.90 ↓ -24%
Multiplan Commercial $27.90 ↓ -24%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $27.90 ↓ -24%

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Triglycerides at other South-dakota hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center Clear Lake $65.60 $42.07 – $73.80
Sanford Hospital Webster Webster $58.40 $22.92 – $65.70
Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center Chamberlain $72.00 $12.31 – $32.40
Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center Canton $28.80 $11.97 – $31.50
Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls not published $5.45 – $11.75
Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center Aberdeen not published $5.45 – $6.03

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