Assay of sialic acid at HCA HealthONE AURORA
1501 S. Potomac Street, Aurora, CO · HCA HealthONE · · NPI 1659327013
$2,452.66
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.
$2,452.66
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.
$7.17 with Cigna vs $2,207.39 with Multiplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Connect-SBP | $7.17 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | SureFit | $8.57 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBP | $9.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Broad | $11.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | MCR | $13.31 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MCR | $13.37 | ↓ -99% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MCR | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MCRAdvantage | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | Medicare | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | PFFS | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCRADVHMO | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCRADVPPO | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRSNP | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Total LongTerm Care | MCR | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRPOS | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRHMO | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| United | ColoradoDoctorsPlan | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | DualEligible | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem BCBS | MCR | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | FED | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRPPO | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plan | AllPayerAppendix | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Rocky Mountain Health | MGMCR | $13.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | MGMCR | $13.71 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCR | $13.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Delaware Life Insurance | MGMCR | $14.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | PathwayEssentials | $32.66 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | PathwayNSBP | $41.66 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem | PPO | $63.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | HMO | $63.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Vail Health | COMM | $372.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | KPSelect | $490.53 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | KPIF | $490.53 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | CommercialSmallGroupPlans | $490.53 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $507.70 | ↓ -79% |
| Bright Health | OON | $735.80 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $870.69 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | HMO | $870.69 | ↓ -65% |
| Colorado Program for Children with Special Needs | HCP | $1,030.12 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $1,103.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Evernorth (Cigna Behavioral Health) | COMM | $1,226.33 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Cofinity | $1,295.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBPLeanBenefitPlans | $1,569.70 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Connect-SBPLeanBenefitPlans | $1,569.70 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | BroadLeanBenefitPlans | $1,569.70 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | SureFitLeanBenefitPlans | $1,569.70 | ↓ -36% |
| Western Plains Community Health | COMM | $1,594.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Physician Health Partners | MCR | $1,716.86 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $1,716.86 | ↓ -30% |
| NorthCare | COMM | $1,716.86 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | PAR | $1,814.97 | ↓ -26% |
| Pinnacol Workers Comp | WORKERSCOMP | $1,839.49 | ↓ -25% |
| Medical Development International | COMM | $1,962.13 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $2,084.76 | ↓ -15% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $2,207.39 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetCOMMPPO | $2,207.39 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | NBR | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASA | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ExistingBusiness | not published by hospital | — |
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| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $213.66 | $13.17 – $24.86 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $213.66 | $13.17 – $24.86 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $213.66 | $13.17 – $24.86 |
| AdventHealth Castle Rock | Castle Rock | $213.66 | $13.17 – $24.86 |
| AdventHealth Parker | Parker | $213.66 | $13.17 – $24.86 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | not published | $6.12 – $32.66 |
| HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH | LAKEWOOD | not published | $7.87 – $32.66 |
| HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE | Thornton | not published | $6.38 – $32.66 |