Platelet automated at Sterling Regional Medical Center
615 Fairhurst Street, Sterling, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1942238555
$4.69
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.
$14.00
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.
$3.91 with Aetna vs $13.58 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 |
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| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $3.91 | ↓ -17% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $4.34 | ↓ -7% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $4.34 | ↓ -7% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $4.34 | ↓ -7% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $4.34 | ↓ -7% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $4.34 | ↓ -7% |
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↓ -4% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↓ -4% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $4.61 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $4.75 | ↑ +1% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $4.93 | ↑ +5% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $5.21 | ↑ +11% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $6.81 | ↑ +45% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway Standard | $7.42 | ↑ +58% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Navigate/Colorado Option | $8.12 | ↑ +73% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $8.48 | ↑ +81% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway | $10.33 | ↑ +120% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Blue Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $10.64 | ↑ +127% |
| Medica | Commercial | $11.66 | ↑ +149% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Doctor's Plan | $11.94 | ↑ +155% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $12.60 | ↑ +169% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $12.60 | ↑ +169% |
| Aetna | Commercial/Medical Rental | $13.02 | ↑ +178% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $13.27 | ↑ +183% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $13.30 | ↑ +184% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $13.30 | ↑ +184% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $13.30 | ↑ +184% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $13.58 | ↑ +190% |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
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Platelet automated at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $3.95 | $3.60 – $13.30 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $8.72 | $5.90 – $13.58 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $274.49 | $4.39 – $8.29 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | $449.34 | $2.39 – $10.89 |
| HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE | Thornton | $420.39 | $2.12 – $10.89 |
| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $178.97 | $4.44 – $4.70 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $274.49 | $4.39 – $8.29 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $274.49 | $4.39 – $8.29 |