Potassium chloride 10 meq/100ml in sterile water intravenous piggyback at Sterling Regional Medical Center
615 Fairhurst Street, Sterling, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1942238555
$0.39
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.
$2.00
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.
$0.13 with Aetna vs $0.45 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 | $0.13 | ↓ -67% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $0.14 | ↓ -64% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $0.14 | ↓ -64% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $0.14 | ↓ -64% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $0.14 | ↓ -64% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $0.14 | ↓ -64% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $0.17 | ↓ -56% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $0.22 | ↓ -44% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway Standard | $0.24 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Navigate/Colorado Option | $0.27 | ↓ -31% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $0.28 | ↓ -28% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway | $0.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Blue Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $0.35 | ↓ -10% |
| Medica | Commercial | $0.38 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Doctor's Plan | $0.39 | ↑ +0% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $0.41 | ↑ +5% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $0.41 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | Commercial/Medical Rental | $0.43 | ↑ +10% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $0.44 | ↑ +13% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $0.44 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $0.44 | ↑ +13% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $0.44 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $0.45 | ↑ +15% |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
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Potassium chloride 10 meq/100ml in sterile water intravenous piggyback at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $217.00 | $0.21 – $0.39 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | $421.00 | $0.14 – $0.39 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | not published | $0.18 – $0.39 |
| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | not published | $0.13 – $0.39 |
| HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE | Thornton | not published | $0.15 – $0.39 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | not published | $0.17 – $0.39 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | not published | $0.21 – $0.24 |
| HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH | LAKEWOOD | not published | $0.18 – $0.39 |