Culture fungi skin/hair/nail 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

$8.55

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.

$59.00

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.

$7.48 with United Healthcare vs $56.05 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 $7.48 ↓ -13%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $7.71 ↓ -10%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $7.71 ↓ -10%
Medica Medicare Advantage $7.71 ↓ -10%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $7.71 ↓ -10%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $7.71 ↓ -10%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $7.71 ↓ -10%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $7.71 ↓ -10%
Humana Medicare Advantage $7.94 ↓ -7%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $7.94 ↓ -7%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $8.10 ↓ -5%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $9.25 ↑ +8%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $12.09 ↑ +41%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $13.78 ↑ +61%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $15.42 ↑ +80%
Centivo Self-Funded $18.50 ↑ +116%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $19.66 ↑ +130%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $24.19 ↑ +183%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $31.74 ↑ +271%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $35.40 ↑ +314%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $43.84 ↑ +413%
United Healthcare Commercial $48.73 ↑ +470%
Medica Commercial $49.15 ↑ +475%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $49.82 ↑ +483%
Decent Health Commercial $50.15 ↑ +487%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $50.15 ↑ +487%
Aetna Commercial $51.86 ↑ +507%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $53.10 ↑ +521%
Multiplan Commercial $55.46 ↑ +549%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $56.05 ↑ +556%

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Culture fungi skin/hair/nail at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $16.46 $7.48 – $56.05
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $25.37 $7.71 – $57.23
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $39.41 $24.86 – $57.23
AdventHealth Porter Denver $123.50 $7.56 – $14.26
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AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $123.50 $7.56 – $14.26
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