Aluminum - quest 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

$17.71

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.

$77.00

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.

$19.79 with Banner Health vs $73.15 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 $19.79 ↑ +12%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $24.72 ↑ +40%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $25.48 ↑ +44%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $25.48 ↑ +44%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $25.48 ↑ +44%
Medica Medicare Advantage $25.48 ↑ +44%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $25.48 ↑ +44%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $26.24 ↑ +48%
Humana Medicare Advantage $26.24 ↑ +48%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $26.75 ↑ +51%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $30.58 ↑ +73%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $36.04 ↑ +104%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $39.95 ↑ +126%
Coventry Auto $43.89 ↑ +148%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $45.54 ↑ +157%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $48.97 ↑ +177%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $50.96 ↑ +188%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $53.90 ↑ +204%
Centivo Self-Funded $61.15 ↑ +245%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $61.29 ↑ +246%
United Healthcare Commercial $61.29 ↑ +246%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $61.60 ↑ +248%
Coventry Workers Comp $61.60 ↑ +248%
Medica Commercial $64.14 ↑ +262%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $65.45 ↑ +270%
Decent Health Commercial $65.45 ↑ +270%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $65.45 ↑ +270%
Aetna Commercial $67.68 ↑ +282%
Multiplan Commercial $72.38 ↑ +309%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $73.15 ↑ +313%

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Aluminum - quest at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $17.48 $24.72 – $73.15
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $25.41 $21.48 – $74.69
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $47.43 $32.45 – $74.69
AdventHealth Porter Denver $383.48 $24.97 – $47.14
HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH LAKEWOOD $872.02 $14.90 – $61.92
HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE Thornton $502.90 $12.09 – $61.92
HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION Denver $244.60 $25.23 – $26.75
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $383.48 $24.97 – $47.14

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