Understanding your bill

As part of our ongoing commitment to provide the best possible service to our patients, we want you to understand the billing process that occurs after you visit a UCHealth facility.

If you have given us insurance information at the time of your visit, we will send a claim to your insurance company. Once your insurance company pays its portion of the bill, you may receive an Explanation of Benefits (EOB). This explanation should describe how your insurance company processed the bill.

You will then receive a billing statement from the UCHealth facility you visited. This statement will tell you the balance due after insurance has processed the claim in accordance to your insurance benefit plan.

Sample statements

• Medical Center of the Rockies
• Memorial Hospital
• Poudre Valley Hospital
• Yampa Valley Medical Center

Charge types

Various physicians that work within the UCHealth facilities are considered to be hospital-based providers. This means that we are required to bill separately for facility and provider charges. As a result, you may receive 2 bills for the services you received.

Hospital billing could include:

• Inpatient room charges
• Operating room charges
• Ancillary services (such as pharmacy, radiology or laboratory services ordered by your physician)
• Anesthesia

Physician billing could include:

• Physicians services (Inpatient or outpatient hospital based services)
• Anesthesia
• Diagnostic testing interpretation
• Specialty professional services

You also may receive statements for consultation charges if your primary care doctor or attending physician spoke with a specialist such as a radiologist or pathologist about your treatment or test results.

Accepted payment types