Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray (with bending views) 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.
$34.29 with Anthem vs $6,331.12 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 |
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| Anthem | PathwayEssentialsStandard | $34.29 | — |
| Anthem | PathwaySBP | $38.96 | — |
| Anthem | PPO | $72.37 | — |
| Anthem | HMO | $72.37 | — |
| Pinnacol Workers Comp | WORKERSCOMP | $169.18 | — |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetWorkersComp | $176.30 | — |
| Multiplan | WorkersComp | $176.30 | — |
| United | ColoradoDoctorsPlan | $185.25 | — |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plan | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | — |
| Cigna | Connect-SBP | $248.79 | — |
| Cigna | SureFit | $317.72 | — |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBP | $343.56 | — |
| Cigna | Broad | $430.80 | — |
| Vail Health | COMM | $1,069.26 | — |
| Kaiser | KPIF | $1,406.92 | — |
| Kaiser | KPSelect | $1,406.92 | — |
| Kaiser | CommercialSmallGroupPlans | $1,406.92 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,456.16 | — |
| Bright Health | OON | $2,110.37 | — |
| WPPA | UnifiedHealthPlan | $2,110.37 | — |
| Kaiser | PPO | $2,497.28 | — |
| Kaiser | HMO | $2,497.28 | — |
| Colorado Program for Children with Special Needs | HCP | $2,954.52 | — |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $3,165.56 | — |
| Evernorth (Cigna Behavioral Health) | COMM | $3,517.29 | — |
| Aetna | Cofinity | $3,679.09 | — |
| WPPA | OutofServiceArea | $4,220.75 | — |
| Cigna | BroadLeanBenefitPlans | $4,502.13 | — |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBPLeanBenefitPlans | $4,502.13 | — |
| Cigna | SureFitLeanBenefitPlans | $4,502.13 | — |
| Cigna | Connect-SBPLeanBenefitPlans | $4,502.13 | — |
| Western Plains Community Health | COMM | $4,572.48 | — |
| NorthCare | COMM | $4,924.21 | — |
| Physician Health Partners | MCR | $4,924.21 | — |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $4,924.21 | — |
| Anthem | PAR | $5,205.59 | — |
| Medical Development International | COMM | $5,627.66 | — |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $5,979.39 | — |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $6,331.12 | — |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetCOMMPPO | $6,331.12 | — |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray (with bending views) at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $124.52 | $97.99 – $256.49 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $84.13 | $61.42 – $256.80 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $383.40 | $106.87 – $826.44 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $565.73 | $13.48 – $31.04 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $3,135.96 | $85.98 – $204.02 |
| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | $4,476.00 | $35.89 – $1,374.95 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $3,135.96 | $85.98 – $204.02 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $3,135.96 | $85.98 – $206.29 |