Echo transthoracic 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

$289.80

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.

$828.00

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.

$88.40 with United Healthcare vs $1,324.13 with Centivo — 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 Commercial $88.40 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $88.40 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $88.40 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $88.40 ↓ -69%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $212.80 ↓ -27%
Coventry Auto $471.96 ↑ +63%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $535.17 ↑ +85%
Medica Medicare Advantage $551.72 ↑ +90%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $551.72 ↑ +90%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $551.72 ↑ +90%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $551.72 ↑ +90%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $551.72 ↑ +90%
Humana Medicare Advantage $568.27 ↑ +96%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $568.27 ↑ +96%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $579.31 ↑ +100%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $579.60 ↑ +100%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $662.06 ↑ +128%
Coventry Workers Comp $662.40 ↑ +129%
Medica Commercial $689.72 ↑ +138%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $695.52 ↑ +140%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $703.80 ↑ +143%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $703.80 ↑ +143%
Decent Health Commercial $703.80 ↑ +143%
Aetna Commercial $727.81 ↑ +151%
Multiplan Commercial $778.32 ↑ +169%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $786.60 ↑ +171%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $842.88 ↑ +191%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $865.10 ↑ +199%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $986.14 ↑ +240%
Centivo Self-Funded $1,324.13 ↑ +357%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare not published by hospital

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Echo transthoracic at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $327.89 $339.48 – $1,322.47
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $348.99 $230.73 – $802.19
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $518.53 $348.50 – $802.19
AdventHealth Porter Denver $3,870.55 $215.04 – $1,066.35
CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE DENVER $9,269.00 $848.89 – $884.63
HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's Denver $2,964.00 $848.89 – $884.63
HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE Lone Tree $5,605.05 $848.89 – $884.63
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $7,232.00 $133.00 – $884.63

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