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Vitamin D Test 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

$20.20

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.

$89.00

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.

$28.71 with United Healthcare vs $84.55 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 $28.71 ↑ +42%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $29.60 ↑ +47%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $29.60 ↑ +47%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $29.60 ↑ +47%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $29.60 ↑ +47%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $29.60 ↑ +47%
Medica Medicare Advantage $29.60 ↑ +47%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $29.60 ↑ +47%
Humana Medicare Advantage $30.49 ↑ +51%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $30.49 ↑ +51%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $31.08 ↑ +54%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $35.52 ↑ +76%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $36.49 ↑ +81%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $46.41 ↑ +130%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $47.88 ↑ +137%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $52.90 ↑ +162%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $53.40 ↑ +164%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $59.20 ↑ +193%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $62.30 ↑ +208%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $66.13 ↑ +227%
Centivo Self-Funded $71.04 ↑ +252%
United Healthcare Commercial $73.51 ↑ +264%
Medica Commercial $74.14 ↑ +267%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $75.15 ↑ +272%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $75.65 ↑ +275%
Decent Health Commercial $75.65 ↑ +275%
Aetna Commercial $78.23 ↑ +287%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $80.10 ↑ +297%
Multiplan Commercial $83.66 ↑ +314%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $84.55 ↑ +319%

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Vitamin D Test at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $20.47 $22.87 – $84.55
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $53.13 $24.83 – $86.33
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $99.18 $37.50 – $86.33

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