St analysis behavior qualitative voice/resonance at HCA HealthONE AURORA
1501 S. Potomac Street, Aurora, CO · HCA HealthONE · · NPI 1659327013
$717.20
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.
$717.20
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.
$109.01 with Vail Health vs $645.48 with Prime Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vail Health | COMM | $109.01 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | MCR | $111.82 | ↓ -84% |
| United | MCR | $112.39 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | MCRADVPPO | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Total LongTerm Care | MCR | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Rocky Mountain Health | MGMCR | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MCR | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | Medicare | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | FED | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | MCRADVHMO | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Bright Health | DualEligible | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Bright Health | MCRHMO | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Bright Health | MCRPOS | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Bright Health | MCRPPO | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Bright Health | MCRSNP | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Devoted Health | MCRAdvantage | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Bright Health | PFFS | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Anthem BCBS | MCR | $112.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Kaiser | MGMCR | $115.21 | ↓ -84% |
| WellCare | MCR | $116.34 | ↓ -84% |
| Delaware Life Insurance | MGMCR | $118.60 | ↓ -83% |
| Kaiser | KPSelect | $143.44 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | KPIF | $143.44 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | CommercialSmallGroupPlans | $143.44 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $148.46 | ↓ -79% |
| Bright Health | OON | $215.16 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $254.61 | ↓ -64% |
| Kaiser | HMO | $254.61 | ↓ -64% |
| Colorado Program for Children with Special Needs | HCP | $301.22 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $322.74 | ↓ -55% |
| Evernorth (Cigna Behavioral Health) | COMM | $358.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Cofinity | $378.68 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBPLeanBenefitPlans | $459.01 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | BroadLeanBenefitPlans | $459.01 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Connect-SBPLeanBenefitPlans | $459.01 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | SureFitLeanBenefitPlans | $459.01 | ↓ -36% |
| Western Plains Community Health | COMM | $466.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $502.04 | ↓ -30% |
| Physician Health Partners | MCR | $502.04 | ↓ -30% |
| NorthCare | COMM | $502.04 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | PAR | $530.73 | ↓ -26% |
| Pinnacol Workers Comp | WORKERSCOMP | $537.90 | ↓ -25% |
| Medical Development International | COMM | $573.76 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $609.62 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetCOMMPPO | $645.48 | ↓ -10% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $645.48 | ↓ -10% |
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St analysis behavior qualitative voice/resonance at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $119.83 | $154.98 – $359.10 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $161.78 | $88.40 – $359.10 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $329.84 | $106.02 – $368.60 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $224.96 | $160.13 – $368.60 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $224.03 | $110.69 – $208.96 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | $2,258.85 | $111.82 – $118.60 |
| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | $2,258.85 | $98.80 – $160.86 |
| HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE | Thornton | $800.12 | $111.82 – $118.60 |