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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at Banner Fort Collins Medical Center
4700 Lady Moon Drive, Fort Collins, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1659787554
$83.88
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.
$161.00
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.
$66.01 with Banner Health vs $256.49 with Centivo — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $66.01 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $103.66 | ↑ +24% |
| United Healthcare | UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option | $106.00 | ↑ +26% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $106.87 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $106.87 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $106.87 | ↑ +27% |
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $106.87 | ↑ +27% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $106.87 | ↑ +27% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $106.87 | ↑ +27% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $106.87 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $110.08 | ↑ +31% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $110.08 | ↑ +31% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $112.21 | ↑ +34% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $112.70 | ↑ +34% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Colorado Doctors Plan | $121.00 | ↑ +44% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $128.24 | ↑ +53% |
| Medica | Commercial | $134.11 | ↑ +60% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $135.95 | ↑ +62% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $136.85 | ↑ +63% |
| Decent Health | Commercial | $136.85 | ↑ +63% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $144.90 | ↑ +73% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Exchange | $150.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $151.34 | ↑ +80% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $152.95 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $153.00 | ↑ +82% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $167.57 | ↑ +100% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $168.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $191.01 | ↑ +128% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $200.35 | ↑ +139% |
| Centivo | Self-Funded | $256.49 | ↑ +206% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $56.67 | $41.38 – $256.80 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $168.75 | $104.62 – $363.75 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $249.00 | $10.11 – $23.28 |