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Diagnostic Mammogram (one breast) 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

$125.15

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.

$310.00

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.

$79.67 with Banner Health vs $700.00 with Aetna — 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 $79.67 ↓ -36%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $155.00 ↑ +24%
Centivo Self-Funded $155.00 ↑ +24%
Coventry Auto $176.70 ↑ +41%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $198.49 ↑ +59%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $211.00 ↑ +69%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $217.00 ↑ +73%
Coventry Workers Comp $248.00 ↑ +98%
Medica Commercial $258.23 ↑ +106%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $260.40 ↑ +108%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $263.50 ↑ +111%
Decent Health Commercial $263.50 ↑ +111%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $263.50 ↑ +111%
Multiplan Commercial $291.40 ↑ +133%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $294.50 ↑ +135%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $295.00 ↑ +136%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $369.00 ↑ +195%
United Healthcare Commercial $409.00 ↑ +227%
Aetna Commercial $700.00 ↑ +459%

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Diagnostic Mammogram (one breast) at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $179.49 $127.10 – $700.00
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $197.28 $80.35 – $279.36
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $224.93 $35.40 – $81.48

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