Carbon dioxide at Banner Fort Collins Medical Center

4700 Lady Moon Drive, Fort Collins, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1659787554

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 2, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$3.41

Cash price

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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.

$15.00

Gross charge

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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.

$4.73 with United Healthcare vs $14.25 with First Choice of the Midwest — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $4.73 ↑ +39%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $4.88 ↑ +43%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $4.88 ↑ +43%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $4.88 ↑ +43%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $4.88 ↑ +43%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $4.88 ↑ +43%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $4.88 ↑ +43%
Medica Medicare Advantage $4.88 ↑ +43%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $5.03 ↑ +48%
Humana Medicare Advantage $5.03 ↑ +48%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $5.12 ↑ +50%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $5.86 ↑ +72%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $6.15 ↑ +80%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $7.65 ↑ +124%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $8.07 ↑ +137%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $8.72 ↑ +156%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $9.00 ↑ +164%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $9.76 ↑ +186%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $10.50 ↑ +208%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $11.14 ↑ +227%
Centivo Self-Funded $11.71 ↑ +243%
United Healthcare Commercial $12.39 ↑ +263%
Medica Commercial $12.49 ↑ +266%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $12.67 ↑ +272%
Decent Health Commercial $12.75 ↑ +274%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $12.75 ↑ +274%
Aetna Commercial $13.19 ↑ +287%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $13.50 ↑ +296%
Multiplan Commercial $14.10 ↑ +313%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $14.25 ↑ +318%

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Carbon dioxide at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $30.13 $3.85 – $14.25
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $15.84 $4.88 – $46.56
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $29.57 $20.23 – $46.56
AdventHealth Porter Denver $139.10 $4.78 – $9.03
HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's Denver $277.00 $3.11 – $13.96
HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION Denver $164.05 $4.83 – $13.96
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $139.10 $4.78 – $9.03
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $139.10 $4.78 – $9.03

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