Knee MRI (with contrast) at AdventHealth Parker
9395 Crown Crest Blvd, Parker, CO · AdventHealth · · NPI 1386651297
$5,852.15
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.
$5,852.15
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.
$443.12 with Bcbs vs $1,609.16 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 | $443.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $810.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $826.95 | ↓ -86% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $835.21 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Healthspring Medicare Managed Care Plan | $843.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpath | Medicare Managed Care | $1,033.68 | ↓ -82% |
| Selecthealth | Hmo/Pos | $1,529.85 | ↓ -74% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select Colorado Other Commercial Plan | $1,609.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate/Core/Charter/Nexusaco Other Commercial Plan | $1,609.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Colorado Doctors Epo | $1,609.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Hmo/Ppo | $1,609.16 | ↓ -73% |
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Knee MRI (with contrast) at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | not published | $185.80 – $1,609.16 |
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $504.25 | $546.94 – $1,267.30 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $514.92 | $342.84 – $1,267.30 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $1,377.47 | $833.65 – $2,898.36 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $2,187.22 | $70.80 – $162.96 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $5,852.15 | $443.12 – $1,529.85 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $5,852.15 | $443.12 – $1,529.85 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $5,852.15 | $443.12 – $1,546.83 |