Culture fungi other (except blood) at Sterling Regional Medical Center
615 Fairhurst Street, Sterling, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1942238555
$33.54
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.
$78.00
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.
$8.41 with United Healthcare vs $58.20 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 | $8.41 | ↓ -75% |
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -75% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $8.66 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $8.91 | ↓ -73% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $9.25 | ↓ -72% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $13.19 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $16.74 | ↓ -50% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $18.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $18.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $18.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $18.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $18.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $22.32 | ↓ -33% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway Standard | $31.78 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Navigate/Colorado Option | $34.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $36.33 | ↑ +8% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway | $44.27 | ↑ +32% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Blue Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $45.59 | ↑ +36% |
| Medica | Commercial | $49.98 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Doctor's Plan | $51.18 | ↑ +53% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $54.00 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $54.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | Commercial/Medical Rental | $55.80 | ↑ +66% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $56.88 | ↑ +70% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $57.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $57.00 | ↑ +70% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $57.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $58.20 | ↑ +74% |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture fungi other (except blood) at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $11.31 | $8.16 – $57.00 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $24.55 | $8.16 – $57.00 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $52.10 | $25.28 – $58.20 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $510.70 | $8.24 – $15.56 |
| HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH | LAKEWOOD | $1,056.90 | $4.92 – $20.44 |
| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $283.38 | $8.33 – $8.83 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $510.70 | $8.24 – $15.56 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $510.70 | $8.24 – $15.56 |