Thyroid imaging at AdventHealth Littleton
7700 S Broadway, Littleton, CO · AdventHealth · · NPI 1689688988
$2,001.65
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.
$2,001.65
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.
$278.74 with Bcbs vs $848.52 with Unitedhealthcare — 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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| Bcbs | All Commercial Plans | $278.74 | ↓ -86% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $413.28 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $421.71 | ↓ -79% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $425.93 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Healthspring Medicare Managed Care Plan | $430.15 | ↓ -79% |
| Selecthealth | Hmo/Pos | $780.17 | ↓ -61% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select Colorado Other Commercial Plan | $848.52 | ↓ -58% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate/Core/Charter/Nexusaco Other Commercial Plan | $848.52 | ↓ -58% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Colorado Doctors Epo | $848.52 | ↓ -58% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Hmo/Ppo | $848.52 | ↓ -58% |
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Thyroid imaging at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $623.48 | $391.72 – $1,086.80 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $565.14 | $294.01 – $1,086.80 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $386.86 | $271.19 – $942.84 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $563.76 | $15.59 – $35.89 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $2,001.65 | $278.74 – $780.17 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | $5,111.44 | $41.19 – $848.52 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $5,957.50 | $41.19 – $1,155.34 |
| HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH | LAKEWOOD | $5,144.34 | $41.19 – $994.77 |