Intro long gi tube w/mult fluo 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

$217.26

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.

$417.00

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.

$106.00 with United Healthcare vs $396.15 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 UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $106.00 ↓ -51%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $121.00 ↓ -44%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $150.00 ↓ -31%
United Healthcare Commercial $168.00 ↓ -23%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $170.97 ↓ -21%
Centivo Self-Funded $208.50 ↓ -4%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $208.50 ↓ -4%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $267.01 ↑ +23%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $291.90 ↑ +34%
Medica Commercial $347.36 ↑ +60%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $352.11 ↑ +62%
Decent Health Commercial $354.45 ↑ +63%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $354.45 ↑ +63%
Aetna Commercial $366.54 ↑ +69%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $375.30 ↑ +73%
Multiplan Commercial $391.98 ↑ +80%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $396.15 ↑ +82%

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Intro long gi tube w/mult fluo at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $146.78 $107.17 – $396.15
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $207.90 $128.90 – $448.14
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $306.77 $23.60 – $54.32
AdventHealth Porter Denver $1,703.73 $44.93 – $44.93
HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's Denver $1,658.00 $61.84 – $61.84
HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE Lone Tree $2,736.80 $61.84 – $61.84
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $2,736.80 $61.84 – $836.62
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $1,703.73 $44.93 – $44.93

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