Carboxyhemoglobin quantitative at Sterling Regional Medical Center
615 Fairhurst Street, Sterling, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1942238555
$24.75
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.
$75.00
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.
$12.32 with Clear Spring Health vs $54.32 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 | $12.32 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $12.32 | ↓ -50% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $12.69 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $13.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $13.55 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $15.62 | ↓ -37% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $17.36 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $17.36 | ↓ -30% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $17.36 | ↓ -30% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $17.36 | ↓ -30% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $17.36 | ↓ -30% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $19.32 | ↓ -22% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $20.83 | ↓ -16% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway Standard | $29.66 | ↑ +20% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Navigate/Colorado Option | $32.48 | ↑ +31% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $33.91 | ↑ +37% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway | $41.32 | ↑ +67% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Blue Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $42.55 | ↑ +72% |
| Medica | Commercial | $46.65 | ↑ +88% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Doctor's Plan | $47.77 | ↑ +93% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $50.40 | ↑ +104% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $50.40 | ↑ +104% |
| Aetna | Commercial/Medical Rental | $52.08 | ↑ +110% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $53.09 | ↑ +115% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $53.20 | ↑ +115% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $53.20 | ↑ +115% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $53.20 | ↑ +115% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $54.32 | ↑ +119% |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
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Carboxyhemoglobin quantitative at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $17.03 | $11.95 – $53.20 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $17.25 | $9.51 – $35.15 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $46.20 | $15.59 – $35.89 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $258.00 | $12.07 – $22.79 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | $730.59 | $6.57 – $29.94 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | $602.18 | $7.05 – $29.94 |
| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | $602.18 | $7.05 – $81.72 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $258.00 | $12.07 – $22.79 |