Creatine kinase 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

$12.65

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.

$55.00

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.

$5.14 with Banner Health vs $19.00 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 $5.14 ↓ -59%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $6.31 ↓ -50%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $6.51 ↓ -49%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $6.51 ↓ -49%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $6.51 ↓ -49%
Medica Medicare Advantage $6.51 ↓ -49%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $6.51 ↓ -49%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $6.71 ↓ -47%
Humana Medicare Advantage $6.71 ↓ -47%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $6.84 ↓ -46%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $7.81 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $9.36 ↓ -26%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $10.21 ↓ -19%
Coventry Auto $11.40 ↓ -10%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $11.64 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $12.72 ↑ +1%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $13.02 ↑ +3%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $14.00 ↑ +11%
Centivo Self-Funded $15.62 ↑ +23%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $15.92 ↑ +26%
United Healthcare Commercial $15.92 ↑ +26%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $16.00 ↑ +26%
Coventry Workers Comp $16.00 ↑ +26%
Medica Commercial $16.66 ↑ +32%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $17.00 ↑ +34%
Decent Health Commercial $17.00 ↑ +34%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $17.00 ↑ +34%
Aetna Commercial $17.58 ↑ +39%
Multiplan Commercial $18.80 ↑ +49%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $19.00 ↑ +50%

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Creatine kinase at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $12.49 $6.31 – $19.00
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $18.15 $5.58 – $19.40
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $12.32 $8.43 – $19.40
AdventHealth Porter Denver $105.95 $6.38 – $12.04
HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION Denver $119.33 $6.44 – $18.62
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $105.95 $6.38 – $12.04
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $105.95 $6.38 – $12.04
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $105.95 $6.38 – $12.04

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