Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section each additional block 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

$61.19

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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.

$145.00

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.

$37.27 with Banner Health vs $301.68 with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado — same scan, same building. Share

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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 $37.27 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $67.86 ↑ +11%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $72.50 ↑ +18%
Centivo Self-Funded $72.50 ↑ +18%
Coventry Auto $82.65 ↑ +35%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $92.22 ↑ +51%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $101.50 ↑ +66%
United Healthcare Commercial $115.42 ↑ +89%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $115.42 ↑ +89%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $116.00 ↑ +90%
Coventry Workers Comp $116.00 ↑ +90%
Medica Commercial $120.78 ↑ +97%
Decent Health Commercial $123.25 ↑ +101%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $123.25 ↑ +101%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $123.25 ↑ +101%
Aetna Commercial $127.45 ↑ +108%
Multiplan Commercial $136.30 ↑ +123%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $137.75 ↑ +125%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $301.68 ↑ +393%

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Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section each additional block at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $70.47 $59.45 – $301.68
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $32.54 $18.41 – $64.02
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $40.66 $27.81 – $64.02
AdventHealth Porter Denver $188.01 $36.12 – $77.09
CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE DENVER $690.00 $11.41 – $58.51
HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH LAKEWOOD $807.54 $14.67 – $58.51
HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE Thornton $652.92 $11.90 – $58.51
HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION Denver $683.08 $24.08 – $24.08

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