Reticulated platelet assay 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

$11.02

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.

$108.00

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.

$34.67 with United Healthcare vs $102.60 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 $34.67 ↑ +215%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $35.74 ↑ +224%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $35.74 ↑ +224%
Medica Medicare Advantage $35.74 ↑ +224%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $35.74 ↑ +224%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $35.74 ↑ +224%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $35.74 ↑ +224%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $35.74 ↑ +224%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $36.81 ↑ +234%
Humana Medicare Advantage $36.81 ↑ +234%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $37.53 ↑ +241%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $42.89 ↑ +289%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $44.28 ↑ +302%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $56.04 ↑ +409%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $58.10 ↑ +427%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $63.88 ↑ +480%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $64.80 ↑ +488%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $71.48 ↑ +549%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $75.60 ↑ +586%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $80.24 ↑ +628%
Centivo Self-Funded $85.78 ↑ +678%
United Healthcare Commercial $89.21 ↑ +710%
Medica Commercial $89.96 ↑ +716%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $91.20 ↑ +728%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $91.80 ↑ +733%
Decent Health Commercial $91.80 ↑ +733%
Aetna Commercial $94.93 ↑ +761%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $97.20 ↑ +782%
Multiplan Commercial $101.52 ↑ +821%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $102.60 ↑ +831%

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Reticulated platelet assay at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $30.46 $27.76 – $102.60
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $36.18 $30.13 – $104.76
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $67.28 $45.51 – $104.76
AdventHealth Porter Denver $253.04 $35.03 – $66.12
HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's Denver $127.00 $22.77 – $86.85
HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION Denver $63.25 $35.38 – $37.53
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $253.04 $35.03 – $66.12
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $253.04 $35.03 – $66.12

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