Ustekinumab 45 mg/0.5 ml subcutaneous solution at Sanford Vermillion Hospital
20 S Plum St, Vermillion, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1790721280
$18,526.28
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.
$23,157.84
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.
$6,831.56 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $20,842.06 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.
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 Align | Medicare Replacement | $6,831.56 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $7,039.98 | ↓ -62% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $7,549.46 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $7,642.09 | ↓ -59% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $7,642.09 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $7,642.09 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $7,642.09 | ↓ -59% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $7,781.03 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $9,168.19 | ↓ -51% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $10,453.45 | ↓ -44% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $10,786.92 | ↓ -42% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $12,299.13 | ↓ -34% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $12,736.81 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $15,284.17 | ↓ -18% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $17,368.38 | ↓ -6% |
| Medica | Choice | $19,105.22 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial +20 | $19,336.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Wellmark | PPO | $19,915.74 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $20,124.16 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $20,346.48 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Elect | $20,425.21 | ↑ +10% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $20,842.06 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $20,842.06 | ↑ +12% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $20,842.06 | ↑ +12% |
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Ustekinumab 45 mg/0.5 ml subcutaneous solution at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center | Clear Lake | $36,009.49 | $23,091.08 – $40,510.67 |
| Sanford USD Medical Center | Sioux Falls | $49,434.96 | $82.59 – $30,444.70 |
| Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | not published | $141.93 – $156.87 |