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Abdominal CT scan (without contrast) at Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus

2000 Boise Avenue, Loveland, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1720004450

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 2, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$249.16

Cash price

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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.

$746.00

Gross charge

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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.

$88.40 with United Healthcare vs $742.00 with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Commercial $88.40 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $88.40 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $88.40 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $88.40 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $103.79 ↓ -58%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $107.00 ↓ -57%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $107.00 ↓ -57%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $107.00 ↓ -57%
Medica Medicare Advantage $107.00 ↓ -57%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $107.00 ↓ -57%
Humana Medicare Advantage $110.21 ↓ -56%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $110.21 ↓ -56%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $112.35 ↓ -55%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $128.40 ↓ -48%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $167.78 ↓ -33%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $191.25 ↓ -23%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $191.72 ↓ -23%
Centivo Self-Funded $256.80 ↑ +3%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $272.85 ↑ +10%
Coventry Auto $425.22 ↑ +71%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $489.00 ↑ +96%
Coventry Workers Comp $596.80 ↑ +140%
Medica Commercial $621.42 ↑ +149%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $634.10 ↑ +154%
Decent Health Commercial $634.10 ↑ +154%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $634.10 ↑ +154%
Aetna Commercial $700.00 ↑ +181%
Multiplan Commercial $701.24 ↑ +181%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $708.70 ↑ +184%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $742.00 ↑ +198%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare not published by hospital

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Abdominal CT scan (without contrast) at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $368.01 $106.87 – $1,322.11
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $290.19 $103.66 – $708.70
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $812.35 $51.41 – $118.34

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