Culture anaerobic additional method definitive id each 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

$32.92

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.

$118.00

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.

$6.42 with Banner Health vs $23.75 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 $6.42 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $7.84 ↓ -76%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $8.08 ↓ -75%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $8.08 ↓ -75%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $8.08 ↓ -75%
Medica Medicare Advantage $8.08 ↓ -75%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $8.08 ↓ -75%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $8.32 ↓ -75%
Humana Medicare Advantage $8.32 ↓ -75%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $8.48 ↓ -74%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $9.70 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $11.70 ↓ -64%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $12.67 ↓ -62%
Coventry Auto $14.25 ↓ -57%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $14.44 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $15.90 ↓ -52%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $16.16 ↓ -51%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $17.50 ↓ -47%
Centivo Self-Funded $19.39 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $19.90 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare Commercial $19.90 ↓ -40%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $20.00 ↓ -39%
Coventry Workers Comp $20.00 ↓ -39%
Medica Commercial $20.82 ↓ -37%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $21.25 ↓ -35%
Decent Health Commercial $21.25 ↓ -35%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $21.25 ↓ -35%
Aetna Commercial $21.98 ↓ -33%
Multiplan Commercial $23.50 ↓ -29%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $23.75 ↓ -28%

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Culture anaerobic additional method definitive id each at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $17.11 $7.84 – $23.75
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $50.74 $6.97 – $24.25
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $78.82 $10.54 – $24.25
AdventHealth Porter Denver $253.68 $7.92 – $14.95
CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE DENVER $557.00 $3.67 – $19.63
HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE Lone Tree $746.48 $4.62 – $19.63
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $746.48 $4.62 – $163.44
HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION Denver $68.59 $8.00 – $8.48

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