Warde viscosity 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

$5.81

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.

$57.00

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.

$11.32 with United Healthcare vs $54.15 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 $11.32 ↑ +95%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $11.67 ↑ +101%
Medica Medicare Advantage $11.67 ↑ +101%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $11.67 ↑ +101%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $11.67 ↑ +101%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plans $11.67 ↑ +101%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $11.67 ↑ +101%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $11.67 ↑ +101%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $12.02 ↑ +107%
Humana Medicare Advantage $12.02 ↑ +107%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $12.25 ↑ +111%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $14.00 ↑ +141%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $18.30 ↑ +215%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $20.86 ↑ +259%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $23.34 ↑ +302%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $23.37 ↑ +302%
Centivo Self-Funded $28.01 ↑ +382%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $29.76 ↑ +412%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $30.67 ↑ +428%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $34.20 ↑ +489%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $42.35 ↑ +629%
United Healthcare Commercial $47.08 ↑ +710%
Medica Commercial $47.48 ↑ +717%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $48.13 ↑ +728%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $48.45 ↑ +734%
Decent Health Commercial $48.45 ↑ +734%
Aetna Commercial $50.10 ↑ +762%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $51.30 ↑ +783%
Multiplan Commercial $53.58 ↑ +822%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $54.15 ↑ +832%

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Warde viscosity at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus Loveland $16.07 $11.32 – $54.15
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $19.10 $11.67 – $55.29
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $35.51 $24.02 – $55.29
AdventHealth Porter Denver $301.15 $11.44 – $21.59
HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE Thornton $253.24 $5.54 – $28.36
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $301.15 $11.44 – $21.59
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $301.15 $11.44 – $21.59
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $301.15 $11.44 – $21.59

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