C-reactive protein at Sterling Regional Medical Center
615 Fairhurst Street, Sterling, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1942238555
$29.30
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.
$72.00
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.
$5.18 with United Healthcare vs $69.84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $5.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $5.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $5.34 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -81% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $5.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $8.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $20.09 | ↓ -31% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $22.32 | ↓ -24% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $22.32 | ↓ -24% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $22.32 | ↓ -24% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $22.32 | ↓ -24% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $22.32 | ↓ -24% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $26.78 | ↓ -9% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway Standard | $38.14 | ↑ +30% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Navigate/Colorado Option | $41.76 | ↑ +43% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $43.60 | ↑ +49% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway | $47.91 | ↑ +64% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Blue Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $49.21 | ↑ +68% |
| Medica | Commercial | $59.98 | ↑ +105% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Doctor's Plan | $61.42 | ↑ +110% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $64.80 | ↑ +121% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $64.80 | ↑ +121% |
| Aetna | Commercial/Medical Rental | $66.96 | ↑ +129% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $68.26 | ↑ +133% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $68.40 | ↑ +133% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $68.40 | ↑ +133% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $68.40 | ↑ +133% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $69.84 | ↑ +138% |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
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C-reactive protein at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $4.27 | $4.11 – $15.20 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $53.21 | $30.34 – $69.84 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $337.86 | $5.08 – $9.58 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | $123.00 | $2.36 – $12.59 |
| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $372.87 | $5.13 – $5.44 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $337.86 | $5.08 – $9.58 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $337.86 | $5.08 – $9.58 |
| AdventHealth Castle Rock | Castle Rock | $337.86 | $5.08 – $9.58 |