Alpha-fetoprotein amniotic 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

$11.73

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.

$51.00

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.

$13.11 with Banner Health vs $48.45 with First Choice of the Midwest — 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
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $13.11 ↑ +12%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $16.49 ↑ +41%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $17.00 ↑ +45%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $17.00 ↑ +45%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $17.00 ↑ +45%
Medica Medicare Advantage $17.00 ↑ +45%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $17.00 ↑ +45%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $17.51 ↑ +49%
Humana Medicare Advantage $17.51 ↑ +49%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $17.85 ↑ +52%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $20.40 ↑ +74%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $23.87 ↑ +103%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $26.66 ↑ +127%
Coventry Auto $29.07 ↑ +148%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $30.39 ↑ +159%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $32.44 ↑ +177%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $34.00 ↑ +190%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $35.70 ↑ +204%
United Healthcare Commercial $40.60 ↑ +246%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $40.60 ↑ +246%
Centivo Self-Funded $40.80 ↑ +248%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $40.80 ↑ +248%
Coventry Workers Comp $40.80 ↑ +248%
Medica Commercial $42.48 ↑ +262%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $43.35 ↑ +270%
Decent Health Commercial $43.35 ↑ +270%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $43.35 ↑ +270%
Aetna Commercial $44.83 ↑ +282%
Multiplan Commercial $47.94 ↑ +309%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $48.45 ↑ +313%

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Alpha-fetoprotein amniotic at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $11.58 $16.49 – $48.45
AdventHealth Porter Denver $266.89 $16.66 – $31.45
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $266.89 $16.66 – $31.45
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $266.89 $16.66 – $31.45
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $266.89 $16.66 – $31.45
AdventHealth Parker Parker $266.89 $16.66 – $31.45
HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH LAKEWOOD not published $9.95 – $41.31
HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION Denver not published $16.83 – $17.85

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