Myelography thoracic spine at AdventHealth Parker
9395 Crown Crest Blvd, Parker, CO · AdventHealth · · NPI 1386651297
$2,460.06
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.
$2,460.06
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.
$116.74 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 | $116.74 | ↓ -95% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $810.41 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $826.95 | ↓ -66% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $835.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Healthspring Medicare Managed Care Plan | $843.48 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellpath | Medicare Managed Care | $1,033.68 | ↓ -58% |
| Selecthealth | Hmo/Pos | $1,529.85 | ↓ -38% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select Colorado Other Commercial Plan | $1,609.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate/Core/Charter/Nexusaco Other Commercial Plan | $1,609.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Colorado Doctors Epo | $1,609.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Hmo/Ppo | $1,609.16 | ↓ -35% |
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Myelography thoracic spine 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 | $103.91 – $2,220.24 |
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $794.52 | $106.00 – $1,905.58 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $536.80 | $112.00 – $1,907.98 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $778.05 | $482.39 – $1,677.13 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $1,148.06 | $90.60 – $208.55 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $2,460.06 | $116.74 – $1,529.85 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | $5,085.00 | $103.91 – $1,609.16 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $3,004.50 | $103.91 – $2,201.88 |