_afb id by dna probe rflx ast at Sterling Regional Medical Center
615 Fairhurst Street, Sterling, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1942238555
$31.39
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.
$73.00
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.
$20.05 with Clear Spring Health vs $70.81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $20.05 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $20.05 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $20.37 | ↓ -35% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $20.65 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $21.25 | ↓ -32% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $22.05 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $22.63 | ↓ -28% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $22.63 | ↓ -28% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $22.63 | ↓ -28% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $22.63 | ↓ -28% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $22.63 | ↓ -28% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $27.16 | ↓ -13% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $31.44 | ↑ +0% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway Standard | $38.67 | ↑ +23% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Navigate/Colorado Option | $42.34 | ↑ +35% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $44.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway | $53.86 | ↑ +72% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Blue Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $55.47 | ↑ +77% |
| Medica | Commercial | $60.81 | ↑ +94% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Doctor's Plan | $62.27 | ↑ +98% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $65.70 | ↑ +109% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $65.70 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | Commercial/Medical Rental | $67.89 | ↑ +116% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $69.20 | ↑ +120% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $69.35 | ↑ +121% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $69.35 | ↑ +121% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $69.35 | ↑ +121% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $70.81 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
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_afb id by dna probe rflx ast at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $10.58 | $19.45 – $69.35 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $20.37 | $18.76 – $69.35 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $48.76 | $30.76 – $70.81 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $310.99 | $19.65 – $37.09 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | $245.53 | $10.68 – $48.72 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | $855.00 | $9.12 – $48.72 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $809.00 | $12.77 – $48.72 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | $92.23 | $11.47 – $48.72 |