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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) 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

$870.91

Cash price

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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.

$1,598.00

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.

$655.18 with Banner Health vs $3,148.75 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.

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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
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $655.18 ↓ -25%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $859.72 ↓ -1%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $958.80 ↑ +10%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $1,118.60 ↑ +28%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $1,187.31 ↑ +36%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $1,272.62 ↑ +46%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $1,311.98 ↑ +51%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $1,311.98 ↑ +51%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $1,311.98 ↑ +51%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $1,311.98 ↑ +51%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $1,311.98 ↑ +51%
Medica Medicare Advantage $1,311.98 ↑ +51%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $1,311.98 ↑ +51%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,319.95 ↑ +52%
Medica Commercial $1,331.13 ↑ +53%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $1,349.35 ↑ +55%
Humana Medicare Advantage $1,351.34 ↑ +55%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $1,351.34 ↑ +55%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $1,358.30 ↑ +56%
Decent Health Commercial $1,358.30 ↑ +56%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $1,377.58 ↑ +58%
Aetna Commercial $1,404.64 ↑ +61%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $1,438.20 ↑ +65%
Multiplan Commercial $1,502.12 ↑ +72%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $1,518.10 ↑ +74%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $1,574.38 ↑ +81%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $2,057.18 ↑ +136%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $2,136.45 ↑ +145%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $2,344.90 ↑ +169%
Centivo Self-Funded $3,148.75 ↑ +262%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare not published by hospital

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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $789.41 $410.69 – $3,152.71
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $2,120.94 $1,311.98 – $5,169.13
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $3,090.82 $68.27 – $157.14

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