Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at Sanford Hospital Webster

1401 W 1st St, Webster, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1831103449

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

$78.40

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.

$98.00

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.

$24.01 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $68.83 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 $24.01 ↓ -69%
Wellmark SD Medicare Replacement $25.77 ↓ -67%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $25.77 ↓ -67%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $26.00 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $26.00 ↓ -67%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $26.00 ↓ -67%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $26.00 ↓ -67%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $26.50 ↓ -66%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange True $41.90 ↓ -47%
Security Health Plan Commercial $42.06 ↓ -46%
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/True $47.78 ↓ -39%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $49.30 ↓ -37%
Health Partners State Employees $50.48 ↓ -36%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $56.21 ↓ -28%
Health Partners Commercial $57.36 ↓ -27%
Medica Choice $63.10 ↓ -20%
United Healthcare Commercial + Top 20 $63.86 ↓ -19%
Wellmark PPO $65.77 ↓ -16%
Aetna Commercial $66.46 ↓ -15%
Ucare Commercial $67.20 ↓ -14%
Medica Elect $67.46 ↓ -14%
Healthez Commercial $68.83 ↓ -12%
Multiplan Commercial $68.83 ↓ -12%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $68.83 ↓ -12%

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Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other South-dakota hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls $322.72 $1.00 – $350.92
Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center Chamberlain $113.64 $25.96 – $68.31
Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center Canton $61.08 $26.11 – $68.71
Sanford Vermillion Hospital Vermillion $118.76 $22.52 – $68.71

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