Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Crossgrove

127 The medical providers in this case billed the plaintiff $242,000 for medical services, but accepted $40,000 from plaintiff's health insurer as payment in full Under longstanding precedent recognizing that what is paid for something is relevant to its value, see Quimby v. Boyd, 8 Colo. 194, 6 P. 462 (Colo.1885), the $40,000 figure was properly admitted in this case as relevant to the reasonable value of the medical services provided. The majority, however, would permit the jury to hear only the $242,000 figure, on the ground that the $40,000 figure runs afoul of the collateral source…