Homogenization tissue 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

$7.54

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.

$52.00

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.

$5.70 with United Healthcare vs $49.40 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 $5.70 ↓ -24%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $5.88 ↓ -22%
Medica Medicare Advantage $5.88 ↓ -22%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $5.88 ↓ -22%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $5.88 ↓ -22%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $5.88 ↓ -22%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $5.88 ↓ -22%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $5.88 ↓ -22%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $6.06 ↓ -20%
Humana Medicare Advantage $6.06 ↓ -20%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $6.17 ↓ -18%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $7.06 ↓ -6%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $9.22 ↑ +22%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $10.51 ↑ +39%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $11.76 ↑ +56%
Centivo Self-Funded $14.11 ↑ +87%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $14.99 ↑ +99%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $21.32 ↑ +183%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $27.98 ↑ +271%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $31.20 ↑ +314%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $38.64 ↑ +412%
United Healthcare Commercial $42.95 ↑ +470%
Medica Commercial $43.32 ↑ +475%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $43.91 ↑ +482%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $44.20 ↑ +486%
Decent Health Commercial $44.20 ↑ +486%
Aetna Commercial $45.71 ↑ +506%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $46.80 ↑ +521%
Multiplan Commercial $48.88 ↑ +548%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $49.40 ↑ +555%

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Homogenization tissue at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $14.51 $5.70 – $49.40
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $22.36 $5.88 – $50.44
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $34.74 $21.91 – $50.44
AdventHealth Porter Denver $47.33 $5.76 – $10.88
HCA HealthONE AURORA Aurora $107.35 $3.13 – $14.29
CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE DENVER $160.00 $2.67 – $14.29
HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE Lone Tree $107.42 $3.36 – $14.29
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $107.42 $3.36 – $64.36

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