Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at HCA HealthONE AURORA
1501 S. Potomac Street, Aurora, CO · HCA HealthONE · · NPI 1659327013
$520.40
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.
$520.40
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.
$2.53 with Cigna vs $468.36 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 | $2.53 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | SureFit | $3.03 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBP | $3.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Broad | $4.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCR | $4.71 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MCR | $4.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRPOS | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MCR | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| United | ColoradoDoctorsPlan | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MCRAdvantage | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | Medicare | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | PFFS | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRSNP | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRPPO | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem BCBS | MCR | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | DualEligible | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRHMO | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | FED | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Total LongTerm Care | MCR | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plan | AllPayerAppendix | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCRADVHMO | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCRADVPPO | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Rocky Mountain Health | MGMCR | $4.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | MGMCR | $4.86 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCR | $4.90 | ↓ -99% |
| Delaware Life Insurance | MGMCR | $5.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | PathwayEssentials | $11.57 | ↓ -98% |
| Pinnacol Workers Comp | WORKERSCOMP | $13.07 | ↓ -97% |
| Multiplan | WorkersComp | $13.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetWorkersComp | $13.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | PathwayNSBP | $14.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | PPO | $22.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | HMO | $22.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Vail Health | COMM | $79.10 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | KPIF | $104.08 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | CommercialSmallGroupPlans | $104.08 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | KPSelect | $104.08 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $107.72 | ↓ -79% |
| Bright Health | OON | $156.12 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $184.74 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | HMO | $184.74 | ↓ -65% |
| Colorado Program for Children with Special Needs | HCP | $218.57 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $234.18 | ↓ -55% |
| Evernorth (Cigna Behavioral Health) | COMM | $260.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Cofinity | $274.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Connect-SBPLeanBenefitPlans | $333.06 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBPLeanBenefitPlans | $333.06 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | BroadLeanBenefitPlans | $333.06 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | SureFitLeanBenefitPlans | $333.06 | ↓ -36% |
| Western Plains Community Health | COMM | $338.26 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $364.28 | ↓ -30% |
| NorthCare | COMM | $364.28 | ↓ -30% |
| Physician Health Partners | MCR | $364.28 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | PAR | $385.10 | ↓ -26% |
| Medical Development International | COMM | $416.32 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $442.34 | ↓ -15% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $468.36 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetCOMMPPO | $468.36 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | NBR | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ExistingBusiness | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASA | not published by hospital | — |
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Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $18.61 | $4.62 – $14.25 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $18.86 | $3.85 – $14.25 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $27.06 | $4.76 – $32.98 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $50.51 | $14.33 – $32.98 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $94.67 | $4.66 – $8.81 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $277.00 | $3.03 – $13.62 |
| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $137.23 | $4.71 – $13.62 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $94.67 | $4.66 – $8.81 |