Contrast x-ray gallbladder 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

$188.60

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.

$362.00

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.

$106.00 with United Healthcare vs $429.38 with Centivo — 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 UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $106.00 ↓ -44%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $121.00 ↓ -36%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $148.42 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $150.00 ↓ -20%
Aetna Commercial $153.00 ↓ -19%
United Healthcare Commercial $168.00 ↓ -11%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $173.54 ↓ -8%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $178.91 ↓ -5%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $178.91 ↓ -5%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $178.91 ↓ -5%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $178.91 ↓ -5%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $178.91 ↓ -5%
Medica Medicare Advantage $178.91 ↓ -5%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $178.91 ↓ -5%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $184.28 ↓ -2%
Humana Medicare Advantage $184.28 ↓ -2%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $187.86 ↓ -0%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $214.69 ↑ +14%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $253.40 ↑ +34%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $280.53 ↑ +49%
Medica Commercial $301.55 ↑ +60%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $305.67 ↑ +62%
Decent Health Commercial $307.70 ↑ +63%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $307.70 ↑ +63%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $319.77 ↑ +70%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $325.80 ↑ +73%
Multiplan Commercial $340.28 ↑ +80%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $343.90 ↑ +82%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $422.35 ↑ +124%
Centivo Self-Funded $429.38 ↑ +128%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare not published by hospital

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Contrast x-ray gallbladder at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $127.42 $93.03 – $429.91
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $198.90 $123.32 – $428.74
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $293.49 $13.91 – $32.01
AdventHealth Porter Denver $940.54 $125.35 – $342.30
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $940.54 $125.35 – $342.30
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $940.54 $125.35 – $346.10
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $940.54 $125.35 – $342.30
AdventHealth Parker Parker $940.54 $125.35 – $342.30

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