Smear special stain inclusion bodies/parasites at Banner Fort Collins Medical Center
4700 Lady Moon Drive, Fort Collins, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1659787554
$2.61
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.
$18.00
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.
$5.81 with United Healthcare vs $17.10 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.
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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| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $5.81 | ↑ +123% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $5.99 | ↑ +130% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $5.99 | ↑ +130% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $5.99 | ↑ +130% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $5.99 | ↑ +130% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $5.99 | ↑ +130% |
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $5.99 | ↑ +130% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $5.99 | ↑ +130% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $6.17 | ↑ +136% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $6.17 | ↑ +136% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $6.29 | ↑ +141% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $7.19 | ↑ +175% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $7.38 | ↑ +183% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $9.39 | ↑ +260% |
| United Healthcare | UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option | $9.68 | ↑ +271% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $10.71 | ↑ +310% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Colorado Doctors Plan | $10.80 | ↑ +314% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $11.98 | ↑ +359% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +383% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Exchange | $13.37 | ↑ +412% |
| Centivo | Self-Funded | $14.38 | ↑ +451% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $14.87 | ↑ +470% |
| Medica | Commercial | $14.99 | ↑ +474% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $15.20 | ↑ +482% |
| Decent Health | Commercial | $15.30 | ↑ +486% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $15.30 | ↑ +486% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $15.82 | ↑ +506% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $16.20 | ↑ +521% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $16.92 | ↑ +548% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $17.10 | ↑ +555% |
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Smear special stain inclusion bodies/parasites at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $17.86 | $4.63 – $17.10 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $27.52 | $5.02 – $17.46 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $12.02 | $7.59 – $17.46 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $336.01 | $5.87 – $11.08 |
| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | $134.00 | $3.42 – $89.89 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $336.01 | $5.87 – $11.08 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $336.01 | $5.87 – $11.08 |
| AdventHealth Castle Rock | Castle Rock | $336.01 | $5.87 – $11.08 |