Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping 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

$145.73

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.

$368.00

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.

$126.83 with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado vs $1,675.00 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.

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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
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $126.83 ↓ -13%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $150.88 ↑ +4%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $184.00 ↑ +26%
Centivo Self-Funded $184.00 ↑ +26%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $257.60 ↑ +77%
Medica Commercial $306.54 ↑ +110%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $310.74 ↑ +113%
Decent Health Commercial $312.80 ↑ +115%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $312.80 ↑ +115%
Aetna Commercial $323.47 ↑ +122%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $331.20 ↑ +127%
Multiplan Commercial $345.92 ↑ +137%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $349.60 ↑ +140%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $1,058.00 ↑ +626%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $1,206.00 ↑ +728%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $1,507.00 ↑ +934%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,675.00 ↑ +1049%

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Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $128.80 $88.40 – $349.60
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $226.19 $149.54 – $519.92
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $336.07 $225.87 – $519.92
AdventHealth Porter Denver $774.10 $36.30 – $36.30
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $2,909.00 $104.50 – $106.70
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $774.10 $36.30 – $36.30
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $774.10 $36.30 – $36.30
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $774.10 $36.30 – $36.30

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