Echo guide for amniocentesis at Banner Fort Collins Medical Center
4700 Lady Moon Drive, Fort Collins, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1659787554
$253.44
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.
$360.00
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.
$147.60 with Banner Health vs $439.00 with United Healthcare — 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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| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $147.60 | ↓ -42% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $166.80 | ↓ -34% |
| Centivo | Self-Funded | $180.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $180.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $252.00 | ↓ -1% |
| United Healthcare | UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option | $277.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Medica | Commercial | $299.88 | ↑ +18% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $303.98 | ↑ +20% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $306.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Decent Health | Commercial | $306.00 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Colorado Doctors Plan | $316.00 | ↑ +25% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $324.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $328.00 | ↑ +29% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $338.40 | ↑ +34% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $342.00 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Exchange | $394.00 | ↑ +55% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $439.00 | ↑ +73% |
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Echo guide for amniocentesis at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $199.08 | $92.52 – $342.00 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $285.70 | $140.34 – $487.91 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $391.84 | $16.43 – $37.83 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $2,153.70 | $28.16 – $28.16 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | $819.58 | $40.36 – $40.36 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | $627.00 | $40.36 – $40.36 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $844.25 | $40.36 – $40.36 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $2,153.70 | $28.16 – $28.16 |