Artery x-rays lung 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

$1,627.69

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.

$5,834.00

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.

$112.00 with United Healthcare vs $5,542.30 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
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $112.00 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $155.00 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $195.00 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Commercial $216.00 ↓ -87%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $1,499.34 ↓ -8%
Centivo Self-Funded $2,917.00 ↑ +79%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $2,917.00 ↑ +79%
Coventry Auto $3,325.38 ↑ +104%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $3,735.51 ↑ +129%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $4,083.80 ↑ +151%
Coventry Workers Comp $4,667.20 ↑ +187%
Medica Commercial $4,859.72 ↑ +199%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $4,900.56 ↑ +201%
Decent Health Commercial $4,958.90 ↑ +205%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $4,958.90 ↑ +205%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $4,958.90 ↑ +205%
Aetna Commercial $5,128.09 ↑ +215%
Multiplan Commercial $5,483.96 ↑ +237%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $5,542.30 ↑ +241%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare not published by hospital

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Artery x-rays lung at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $2,599.69 $106.00 – $5,542.30
AdventHealth Porter Denver $5,774.66 $128.91 – $6,161.93
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $5,774.66 $128.91 – $6,161.93
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $5,774.66 $128.91 – $6,230.33
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $5,774.66 $128.91 – $6,161.93
AdventHealth Parker Parker $5,774.66 $128.91 – $6,161.93
HCA HealthONE AURORA Aurora not published $143.66 – $6,933.86
CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE DENVER not published $143.66 – $6,438.74

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