Pricing & Financial Assistance

Pricing & Cost of Care Estimates

We want to help you be informed about out-of-pocket costs for care or services you will receive at CentraCare. To help you learn what your costs may be, we now offer a tool in MyChart you can use to create estimates for the cost of care.

Estimates in MyChart

• If you have an existing MyChart account, you can login and get started.
• If you do not have a MyChart account, you can get an estimate using the MyChart Guest Estimate tool. Get started as a Guest.

Price Estimate Request Form

You also may use the Price Estimate Request form to learn how much a medical service or procedure will cost. Staff from CentraCare's Managed Care department will review your information and respond to you within two business days.

For questions, please call 320-251-2700, ext. 53129

Estimates for Scheduled Services

Once your procedure has been scheduled, a financial counselor may contact you to provide an estimate of the charges; to help you understand what your responsibility will be; and to discuss payment of the estimated balance due.

Our policy is to request patients pay their estimated patient responsibility prior to the procedure. If you are unable to pay in full the estimated patient balance prior to the procedure, we do offer an extended no interest payment plan option.

If you have questions, please call our financial counselor at 320-255-5616, ext. 55616.

MHA Hospital Price Check
To learn more about hospital pricing, visit the Minnesota Hospital Association's Hospital Price Check web site. You can search for both inpatient and outpatient procedures.

Additional Resource
Understanding Health Care Prices: A Consumer Guide is available for download in both English and Spanish from the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Hospital Standard Charges

Beginning January 2021, all hospitals are required to provide pricing information in a single downloadable file to improve price transparency for consumers. The pricing information for each of our CentraCare facilities is linked below. These files contain a description of the charge, the gross charge amount, payer specific contract rates, and the cash discounted prices.

• CentraCare – Long Prairie
• CentraCare – Melrose
• CentraCare – Monticello
• CentraCare – Paynesville
• CentraCare – Sauk Centre
• St. Cloud Hospital

Average Charge by Diagnosis Related Group (DRG)

• CentraCare – Long Prairie
• CentraCare – Melrose
• CentraCare – Monticello
• CentraCare – Paynesville
• CentraCare – Sauk Centre
• St. Cloud Hospital

Hospital-based Clinics

Depending on your health insurance, hospital-based clinics may charge a separate facility fee, which could result in a higher out-of-pocket expense. The following locations are affected:

• CentraCare – Coborn Cancer Center
• CentraCare – Plaza Rehabilitation
• CentraCare – St. Cloud Hospital Behavioral Health
• CentraCare – St. Cloud Hospital Rheumatology
• CentraCare Paynesville – Eden Valley Clinic
• CentraCare Digestive Center
• CentraCare Wound Center

Primary Care Price Transparency

In compliance with Minnesota law, each primary care clinic that specializes in family medicine, general internal medicine, gynecology, or general pediatrics is required to post the clinic’s top 25 procedures over $25.

• CentraCare – Long Prairie Clinic
• CentraCare – Melrose Clinic
• CentraCare – Paynesville Clinic
• CentraCare Paynesville – Eden Valley Clinic
• CentraCare Paynesville – Richmond Clinic
• CentraCare – Sauk Centre Clinic
• CentraCare Clinics

Financial Assistance

Get help with your medical bill
CentraCare is committed to providing high-quality health care to the community regardless of ability to pay. As part of our commitment to serving the health needs of people who are uninsured or underinsured, CentraCare offers discounts to those whose incomes are less than 250% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines.

Application for Financial Assistance
Applications for Financial Assistance are available for download for the entities below.

• CentraCare (English - PDF)
• CentraCare (English - Microsoft Word document)
• CentraCare (Somali - PDF)
• CentraCare (Spanish - PDF)

Income Guidelines
Please refer to the guidelines which provide income requirements for those applying for financial assistance. This is available for download in PDF.

• Income Grid for Patients of CentraCare Clinic and CentraCare Hospitals (PDF)

Covered Entities
Refer to the listing of entities covered under the CentraCare Financial Assistance Policy.

Summaries of Financial Assistance Policy
Summaries of our Financial Assistance Policy are available in PDF for the entities below.

• CentraCare English, Spanish or Somali

Download in PDF the full version of our Financial Assistance Policy in English, Spanish or Somali.

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