Aluminum - quest at AdventHealth Porter
2525 S Downing St, Denver, CO · AdventHealth · · NPI 1801800594
$383.48
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.
$383.48
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.
$24.97 with Unitedhealthcare vs $86.14 with Cigna — 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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| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $24.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $25.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Healthspring Medicare Managed Care Plan | $25.99 | ↓ -93% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select Colorado Other Commercial Plan | $38.22 | ↓ -90% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Hmo/Ppo | $38.22 | ↓ -90% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate/Core/Charter/Nexusaco Other Commercial Plan | $38.22 | ↓ -90% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Colorado Doctors Epo | $38.22 | ↓ -90% |
| Bcbs | All Commercial Plans | $42.88 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $44.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Denver Public Schools | All Commercial Plans | $44.59 | ↓ -88% |
| Centivo | All Commercial Plans | $44.59 | ↓ -88% |
| Employers Health Network | All Commercial Plans | $44.59 | ↓ -88% |
| Selecthealth | Hmo/Pos | $47.14 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental Other Commercial Plan | $48.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Hmo/Ppo | $55.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Local Plus Other Commercial Plan | $81.88 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Open Choice Hmo/Ppo | $86.14 | ↓ -78% |
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Aluminum - quest at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $244.60 | $25.23 – $26.75 |
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $17.48 | $24.72 – $73.15 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $17.71 | $19.79 – $73.15 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $25.41 | $21.48 – $74.69 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $47.43 | $32.45 – $74.69 |
| HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH | LAKEWOOD | $872.02 | $14.90 – $61.92 |
| HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE | Thornton | $502.90 | $12.09 – $61.92 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $383.48 | $24.97 – $47.14 |