Tissue culture skin/biopsy at AdventHealth Avista
100 Health Park Dr, Louisville, CO · AdventHealth · · NPI 1891709192
$1,180.87
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.
$1,180.87
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.
$137.92 with Unitedhealthcare vs $475.55 with Cigna — 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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| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $137.92 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $140.73 | ↓ -88% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $142.14 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Healthspring Medicare Managed Care Plan | $143.54 | ↓ -88% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select Colorado Other Commercial Plan | $211.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Hmo/Ppo | $211.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate/Core/Charter/Nexusaco Other Commercial Plan | $211.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Colorado Doctors Epo | $211.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Bcbs | All Commercial Plans | $236.85 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $244.88 | ↓ -79% |
| Denver Public Schools | All Commercial Plans | $246.28 | ↓ -79% |
| Centivo | All Commercial Plans | $246.28 | ↓ -79% |
| Employers Health Network | All Commercial Plans | $246.28 | ↓ -79% |
| Selecthealth | Hmo/Pos | $260.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental Other Commercial Plan | $268.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Hmo/Ppo | $306.10 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Local Plus Other Commercial Plan | $452.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Open Choice Hmo/Ppo | $475.55 | ↓ -60% |
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Tissue culture skin/biopsy at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $206.85 | $136.51 – $401.85 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $194.16 | $108.71 – $401.85 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $189.50 | $118.02 – $410.31 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $275.80 | $178.25 – $410.31 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $1,180.87 | $137.92 – $260.35 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | $2,828.12 | $75.01 – $341.97 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | $2,141.00 | $64.03 – $341.97 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | $2,399.48 | $80.49 – $341.97 |