Sedimentation rate erythrocyte automated 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

$0.92

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.

$9.00

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.

$2.62 with United Healthcare vs $8.55 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 $2.62 ↑ +185%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $2.70 ↑ +193%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $2.70 ↑ +193%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $2.70 ↑ +193%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $2.70 ↑ +193%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $2.70 ↑ +193%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $2.70 ↑ +193%
Medica Medicare Advantage $2.70 ↑ +193%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $2.78 ↑ +202%
Humana Medicare Advantage $2.78 ↑ +202%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $2.83 ↑ +208%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $3.24 ↑ +252%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $3.69 ↑ +301%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $4.23 ↑ +360%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $4.83 ↑ +425%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $4.84 ↑ +426%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $5.40 ↑ +487%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $5.40 ↑ +487%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $6.30 ↑ +585%
Centivo Self-Funded $6.48 ↑ +604%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $6.69 ↑ +627%
United Healthcare Commercial $7.43 ↑ +708%
Medica Commercial $7.50 ↑ +715%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $7.60 ↑ +726%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $7.65 ↑ +732%
Decent Health Commercial $7.65 ↑ +732%
Aetna Commercial $7.91 ↑ +760%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $8.10 ↑ +780%
Multiplan Commercial $8.46 ↑ +820%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $8.55 ↑ +829%

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Sedimentation rate erythrocyte automated at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $2.54 $2.31 – $8.55
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $3.02 $2.51 – $8.73
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $5.61 $3.79 – $8.73
AdventHealth Porter Denver $103.65 $2.65 – $5.00
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $103.65 $2.65 – $5.00
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $103.65 $2.65 – $5.00
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $103.65 $2.65 – $5.00
AdventHealth Parker Parker $103.65 $2.65 – $5.00

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