Third-party sources citing the CareScout survey put a Minnesota nursing home semi-private room at roughly $12,167/month and a private room at roughly $14,068/month, both well above the roughly $6,573/month cited for private one-bedroom assisted living — though all these figures are unverified against CareScout's own primary tables and should be confirmed before publishing or budgeting decisions.
The detail behind the number
The gap between assisted living and nursing home costs in these figures is substantial — nursing home care runs roughly double assisted living by these estimates — which reflects the higher level of skilled nursing staffing and 24-hour medical oversight nursing homes provide. For Twin Cities families, this cost gap is also a key reason Medical Assistance planning matters so much: nursing home care is far more likely to exhaust a family's savings quickly without Medicaid coverage, whereas assisted living, being private-pay in Minnesota except for the services portion covered by the Elderly Waiver, involves a different and often more gradual financial planning conversation. Because these are state-level, not metro-level, figures, and are third-party sourced, treat them as a rough planning benchmark rather than a precise quote for any specific Twin Cities facility.
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