Fetal hemoglobin rosette 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

$2.96

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.

$29.00

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.

$9.08 with United Healthcare vs $27.55 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 $9.08 ↑ +207%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $9.36 ↑ +216%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $9.36 ↑ +216%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $9.36 ↑ +216%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $9.36 ↑ +216%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $9.36 ↑ +216%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $9.36 ↑ +216%
Medica Medicare Advantage $9.36 ↑ +216%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $9.64 ↑ +226%
Humana Medicare Advantage $9.64 ↑ +226%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $9.83 ↑ +232%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $11.23 ↑ +279%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $11.89 ↑ +302%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $14.68 ↑ +396%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $15.60 ↑ +427%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $16.73 ↑ +465%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $17.40 ↑ +488%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $18.72 ↑ +532%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $20.30 ↑ +586%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $21.55 ↑ +628%
Centivo Self-Funded $22.46 ↑ +659%
United Healthcare Commercial $23.95 ↑ +709%
Medica Commercial $24.16 ↑ +716%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $24.49 ↑ +727%
Decent Health Commercial $24.65 ↑ +733%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $24.65 ↑ +733%
Aetna Commercial $25.49 ↑ +761%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $26.10 ↑ +782%
Multiplan Commercial $27.26 ↑ +821%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $27.55 ↑ +831%

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Fetal hemoglobin rosette at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $8.18 $7.45 – $27.55
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $9.71 $8.09 – $28.13
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $18.07 $12.22 – $28.13
AdventHealth Porter Denver $183.25 $9.17 – $17.32
HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE Lone Tree $636.90 $5.35 – $23.03
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $636.90 $5.35 – $104.20
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $183.25 $9.17 – $17.32
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $183.25 $9.17 – $17.32

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