Cholesterol body fluid 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

$96.48

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.

$425.00

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.

$20.91 with Banner Health vs $48.45 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
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $20.91 ↓ -78%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $25.50 ↓ -74%
Centivo Self-Funded $25.50 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $27.44 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $30.60 ↓ -68%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $32.66 ↓ -66%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $35.70 ↓ -63%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $37.89 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Commercial $42.13 ↓ -56%
Medica Commercial $42.48 ↓ -56%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $43.06 ↓ -55%
Decent Health Commercial $43.35 ↓ -55%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $43.35 ↓ -55%
Aetna Commercial $44.83 ↓ -54%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $45.90 ↓ -52%
Multiplan Commercial $47.94 ↓ -50%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $48.45 ↓ -50%

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Cholesterol body fluid at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $15.64 $13.11 – $48.45
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $22.44 $14.23 – $49.47
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $41.89 $21.49 – $49.47
AdventHealth Porter Denver $839.54 $70.58 – $70.58
HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE Thornton $653.38 $16.78 – $16.78
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $839.54 $70.58 – $70.58
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $839.54 $70.58 – $70.58
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $839.54 $70.58 – $70.58

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