Assay of corticosterone at HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE
9191 Grant Street, Thornton, CO · HCA HealthONE · · NPI 1821042979
$1,281.13
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.
$1,281.13
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.
$10.69 with Cigna vs $1,153.02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Connect-SBP | $10.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | SureFit | $14.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBP | $15.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Broad | $19.76 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCR | $22.29 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MCR | $22.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Rocky Mountain Health | MGMCR | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Devoted Health | MCRAdvantage | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MCR | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | Medicare | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | MCRADVHMO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | MCRADVPPO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | PFFS | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | MCRPPO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | MCRPOS | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| United | ColoradoDoctorsPlan | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | MCRHMO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | DualEligible | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem BCBS | MCR | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | MCRSNP | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | FED | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Total LongTerm Care | MCR | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plan | AllPayerAppendix | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| InnovAge Pace | MCR | $22.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | MGMCR | $22.97 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | MCR | $23.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Delaware Life Insurance | MGMCR | $23.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem | PathwayEssentials | $54.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | PathwayNSBP | $69.81 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem | PPO | $106.97 | ↓ -92% |
| Anthem | HMO | $106.97 | ↓ -92% |
| Vail Health | COMM | $194.73 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | HMO | $242.13 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $265.19 | ↓ -79% |
| Life Source Services | COMM | $350.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Bright Health | OON | $384.34 | ↓ -70% |
| Colorado Program for Children with Special Needs | HCP | $435.58 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $454.80 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $576.51 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Cofinity | $676.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Connect-SBPLeanBenefitPlans | $819.92 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | BroadLeanBenefitPlans | $819.92 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | SureFitLeanBenefitPlans | $819.92 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Connect-NSBPLeanBenefitPlans | $819.92 | ↓ -36% |
| Western Plains Community Health | COMM | $832.73 | ↓ -35% |
| Physician Health Partners | MCR | $896.79 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $896.79 | ↓ -30% |
| NorthCare | COMM | $896.79 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | PAR | $948.04 | ↓ -26% |
| Pinnacol Workers Comp | WORKERSCOMP | $960.85 | ↓ -25% |
| Medical Development International | COMM | $1,024.90 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $1,088.96 | ↓ -15% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $1,153.02 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | BeechStreetCOMMPPO | $1,153.02 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | ExistingBusiness | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASA | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBR | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of corticosterone at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $18.84 | $21.84 – $78.85 |
| Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus | Loveland | $19.09 | $21.33 – $78.85 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $27.39 | $22.52 – $80.51 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $51.13 | $34.98 – $80.51 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | $421.67 | $12.00 – $54.72 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | $326.50 | $14.35 – $54.72 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | not published | $22.07 – $41.66 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | not published | $12.88 – $54.72 |