Culture anaerobic except blood at HCA HealthONE AURORA
1501 S. Potomac Street, Aurora, CO · HCA HealthONE · · NPI 1659327013
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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.
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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.
$5.05 with Cigna vs $2,286.99 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 | $5.05 | — |
| Cigna | SureFit | $6.04 | — |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBP | $6.65 | — |
| Cigna | Broad | $8.32 | — |
| Humana | MCR | $9.38 | — |
| United | MCR | $9.42 | — |
| Mutual of Omaha | MCR | $9.47 | — |
| Devoted Health | MCRAdvantage | $9.47 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | Medicare | $9.47 | — |
| Bright Health | PFFS | $9.47 | — |
| Aetna | MCRADVHMO | $9.47 | — |
| Aetna | MCRADVPPO | $9.47 | — |
| Bright Health | MCRSNP | $9.47 | — |
| Total LongTerm Care | MCR | $9.47 | — |
| Bright Health | MCRPOS | $9.47 | — |
| Bright Health | MCRHMO | $9.47 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9.47 | — |
| United | ColoradoDoctorsPlan | $9.47 | — |
| Bright Health | DualEligible | $9.47 | — |
| Anthem BCBS | MCR | $9.47 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | FED | $9.47 | — |
| Bright Health | MCRPPO | $9.47 | — |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plan | AllPayerAppendix | $9.47 | — |
| Rocky Mountain Health | MGMCR | $9.47 | — |
| Kaiser | MGMCR | $9.66 | — |
| WellCare | MCR | $9.75 | — |
| Delaware Life Insurance | MGMCR | $9.94 | — |
| Anthem | PathwayEssentials | $23.01 | — |
| Anthem | PathwayNSBP | $29.36 | — |
| Anthem | PPO | $44.98 | — |
| Anthem | HMO | $44.98 | — |
| Vail Health | COMM | $386.25 | — |
| Kaiser | KPSelect | $508.22 | — |
| Kaiser | KPIF | $508.22 | — |
| Kaiser | CommercialSmallGroupPlans | $508.22 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $526.01 | — |
| Bright Health | OON | $762.33 | — |
| Kaiser | PPO | $902.09 | — |
| Kaiser | HMO | $902.09 | — |
| Colorado Program for Children with Special Needs | HCP | $1,067.26 | — |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $1,143.49 | — |
| Evernorth (Cigna Behavioral Health) | COMM | $1,270.55 | — |
| Aetna | Cofinity | $1,341.70 | — |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBPLeanBenefitPlans | $1,626.30 | — |
| Cigna | Connect-SBPLeanBenefitPlans | $1,626.30 | — |
| Cigna | BroadLeanBenefitPlans | $1,626.30 | — |
| Cigna | SureFitLeanBenefitPlans | $1,626.30 | — |
| Western Plains Community Health | COMM | $1,651.71 | — |
| Physician Health Partners | MCR | $1,778.77 | — |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $1,778.77 | — |
| NorthCare | COMM | $1,778.77 | — |
| Anthem | PAR | $1,880.41 | — |
| Pinnacol Workers Comp | WORKERSCOMP | $1,905.83 | — |
| Medical Development International | COMM | $2,032.88 | — |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $2,159.93 | — |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $2,286.99 | — |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetCOMMPPO | $2,286.99 | — |
| Aetna | NBR | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASA | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ExistingBusiness | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $8.09 | $7.45 – $27.55 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $12.47 | $8.09 – $28.13 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $19.37 | $12.22 – $28.13 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $394.73 | $9.28 – $17.52 |
| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $366.88 | $9.38 – $9.94 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $394.73 | $9.28 – $17.52 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $394.73 | $9.28 – $17.52 |
| AdventHealth Castle Rock | Castle Rock | $394.73 | $9.28 – $17.52 |