Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH
260 S WADSWORTH BLVD, LAKEWOOD, CO · HCA HealthONE · · NPI 1396790200
$590.97
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.
$590.97
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.
$10.52 with Cigna vs $531.87 with Multiplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Connect-SBP | $10.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | SureFit | $11.46 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBP | $12.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Broad | $15.78 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCR | $17.80 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MCR | $17.89 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | MCRAdvantage | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MCRADVPPO | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Rocky Mountain Health | MGMCR | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MCR | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| United | ColoradoDoctorsPlan | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | Medicare | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem BCBS | MCR | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | DualEligible | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | MCRHMO | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | MCRPOS | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | MCRPPO | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | MCRSNP | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | PFFS | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | FED | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Total LongTerm Care | MCR | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plan | AllPayerAppendix | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MCRADVHMO | $17.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | MGMCR | $18.34 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | MCR | $18.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Delaware Life Insurance | MGMCR | $18.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | PathwayEssentials | $43.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Anthem | PathwayNSBP | $55.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | PPO | $85.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Anthem | HMO | $85.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Vail Health | COMM | $89.83 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | KPIF | $118.19 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | CommercialSmallGroupPlans | $118.19 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | KPSelect | $118.19 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $122.33 | ↓ -79% |
| Kaiser | HMO | $173.75 | ↓ -71% |
| Bright Health | OON | $177.29 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $190.88 | ↓ -68% |
| Colorado Program for Children with Special Needs | HCP | $260.03 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $265.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Cofinity | $312.03 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | SureFitLeanBenefitPlans | $378.22 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Connect-SBPLeanBenefitPlans | $378.22 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBPLeanBenefitPlans | $378.22 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | BroadLeanBenefitPlans | $378.22 | ↓ -36% |
| Western Plains Community Health | COMM | $384.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $413.68 | ↓ -30% |
| NorthCare | COMM | $413.68 | ↓ -30% |
| Physician Health Partners | MCR | $413.68 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | PAR | $437.32 | ↓ -26% |
| Pinnacol Workers Comp | WORKERSCOMP | $443.23 | ↓ -25% |
| Medical Development International | COMM | $472.78 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $502.32 | ↓ -15% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $531.87 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetCOMMPPO | $531.87 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | NBR | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ExistingBusiness | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASA | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $10.30 | $17.44 – $67.45 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $19.81 | $17.44 – $67.45 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $30.53 | $17.98 – $68.87 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $47.43 | $29.92 – $68.87 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $274.10 | $17.62 – $33.26 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $27.25 | $11.46 – $43.69 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | $123.15 | $10.29 – $43.69 |
| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | $325.00 | $10.29 – $60.27 |