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Knee MRI (without contrast) at Banner Fort Collins Medical Center
4700 Lady Moon Drive, Fort Collins, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1659787554
$403.33
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.
$1,067.00
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.
$437.47 with Banner Health vs $1,370.00 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 | $437.47 | ↑ +8% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $533.50 | ↑ +32% |
| Centivo | Self-Funded | $533.50 | ↑ +32% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $746.90 | ↑ +85% |
| United Healthcare | UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option | $867.00 | ↑ +115% |
| Medica | Commercial | $888.81 | ↑ +120% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $900.00 | ↑ +123% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $900.97 | ↑ +123% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $906.95 | ↑ +125% |
| Decent Health | Commercial | $906.95 | ↑ +125% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $960.30 | ↑ +138% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Colorado Doctors Plan | $987.00 | ↑ +145% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,002.98 | ↑ +149% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $1,013.65 | ↑ +151% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $1,119.00 | ↑ +177% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Exchange | $1,234.00 | ↑ +206% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,370.00 | ↑ +240% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Knee MRI (without contrast) at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $1,101.79 | $666.81 – $2,318.30 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $411.86 | $274.22 – $1,119.00 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $1,749.48 | $58.57 – $134.83 |