Tissue exam koh skin/hair/nails at Sterling Regional Medical Center
615 Fairhurst Street, Sterling, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1942238555
$92.45
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.
$215.00
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.
$4.27 with Clear Spring Health vs $62.08 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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| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $4.27 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $4.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $4.40 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $4.53 | ↓ -95% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $4.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $6.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $17.86 | ↓ -81% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $19.84 | ↓ -79% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $19.84 | ↓ -79% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $19.84 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $19.84 | ↓ -79% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $19.84 | ↓ -79% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $23.81 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway Standard | $33.90 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Navigate/Colorado Option | $37.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $38.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Pathway | $39.50 | ↓ -57% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Blue Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $40.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Medica | Commercial | $53.31 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Colorado Doctor's Plan | $54.59 | ↓ -41% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $57.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $57.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial/Medical Rental | $59.52 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $60.67 | ↓ -34% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $60.80 | ↓ -34% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $60.80 | ↓ -34% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $60.80 | ↓ -34% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $62.08 | ↓ -33% |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
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Tissue exam koh skin/hair/nails at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $31.17 | $4.14 – $60.80 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $59.99 | $4.14 – $60.80 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $143.62 | $26.97 – $62.08 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $117.37 | $4.18 – $7.90 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | $288.44 | $2.28 – $10.38 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | $432.00 | $1.95 – $10.38 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $431.75 | $2.72 – $10.38 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | $255.52 | $2.45 – $10.38 |