Chg radiologic exam esophagus double contrast at AdventHealth Castle Rock
2350 Meadows Blvd, Castle Rock, CO · AdventHealth · · NPI 1912249590
$2,057.25
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.
$2,057.25
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.
$138.27 with Bcbs vs $401.74 with Unitedhealthcare — 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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| Bcbs | All Commercial Plans | $138.27 | ↓ -93% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $181.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $185.03 | ↓ -91% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $186.88 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Healthspring Medicare Managed Care Plan | $188.73 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpath | Medicare Managed Care | $231.28 | ↓ -89% |
| Selecthealth | Hmo/Pos | $342.30 | ↓ -83% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select Colorado Other Commercial Plan | $401.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate/Core/Charter/Nexusaco Other Commercial Plan | $401.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Colorado Doctors Epo | $401.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Hmo/Ppo | $401.74 | ↓ -80% |
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Chg radiologic exam esophagus double contrast at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $2,057.25 | $138.27 – $342.30 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $659.75 | $79.12 – $536.07 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | $4,430.80 | $79.12 – $452.48 |
| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | $4,430.80 | $79.12 – $836.62 |
| HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH | LAKEWOOD | $940.81 | $79.12 – $461.57 |
| HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE | Thornton | $3,667.91 | $79.12 – $401.74 |
| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $511.59 | $282.72 – $401.74 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $2,057.25 | $138.27 – $342.30 |