Lithium therapeutic drug level at HCA HealthONE AURORA
1501 S. Potomac Street, Aurora, CO · HCA HealthONE · · NPI 1659327013
$1,239.35
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.
$1,239.35
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.
$3.53 with Cigna vs $1,115.41 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 | $3.53 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | SureFit | $4.21 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBP | $4.64 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Broad | $5.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | MCR | $6.54 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MCR | $6.58 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRPOS | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MCR | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| United | ColoradoDoctorsPlan | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MCRAdvantage | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | Medicare | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | PFFS | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRSNP | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRPPO | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem BCBS | MCR | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | DualEligible | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRHMO | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | FED | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Total LongTerm Care | MCR | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plan | AllPayerAppendix | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCRADVHMO | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCRADVPPO | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Rocky Mountain Health | MGMCR | $6.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | MGMCR | $6.74 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCR | $6.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Delaware Life Insurance | MGMCR | $6.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | PathwayEssentials | $16.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Pinnacol Workers Comp | WORKERSCOMP | $18.14 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | WorkersComp | $18.91 | ↓ -98% |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetWorkersComp | $18.91 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem | PathwayNSBP | $20.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem | PPO | $31.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | HMO | $31.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Vail Health | COMM | $188.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | KPIF | $247.87 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | CommercialSmallGroupPlans | $247.87 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | KPSelect | $247.87 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $256.55 | ↓ -79% |
| Bright Health | OON | $371.81 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $439.97 | ↓ -64% |
| Kaiser | HMO | $439.97 | ↓ -64% |
| Colorado Program for Children with Special Needs | HCP | $520.53 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $557.71 | ↓ -55% |
| Evernorth (Cigna Behavioral Health) | COMM | $619.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Cofinity | $654.38 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Connect-SBPLeanBenefitPlans | $793.18 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBPLeanBenefitPlans | $793.18 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | BroadLeanBenefitPlans | $793.18 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | SureFitLeanBenefitPlans | $793.18 | ↓ -36% |
| Western Plains Community Health | COMM | $805.58 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $867.54 | ↓ -30% |
| NorthCare | COMM | $867.54 | ↓ -30% |
| Physician Health Partners | MCR | $867.54 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | PAR | $917.12 | ↓ -26% |
| Medical Development International | COMM | $991.48 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $1,053.45 | ↓ -15% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $1,115.41 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetCOMMPPO | $1,115.41 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | NBR | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ExistingBusiness | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASA | not published by hospital | — |
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Lithium therapeutic drug level at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $11.80 | $6.41 – $49.40 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $11.96 | $6.41 – $49.40 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $17.16 | $6.61 – $50.44 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $32.03 | $21.91 – $50.44 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $245.56 | $6.48 – $12.23 |
| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $352.01 | $6.54 – $18.91 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $245.56 | $6.48 – $12.23 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $245.56 | $6.48 – $12.23 |