Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid 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

$152.79

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.

$330.00

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.

$84.81 with Banner Health vs $9,872.00 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 $84.81 ↓ -44%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $88.40 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Commercial $88.40 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $88.40 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $88.40 ↓ -42%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $165.00 ↑ +8%
Centivo Self-Funded $165.00 ↑ +8%
Coventry Auto $188.10 ↑ +23%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $231.00 ↑ +51%
Coventry Workers Comp $264.00 ↑ +73%
Medica Commercial $274.89 ↑ +80%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $277.20 ↑ +81%
Decent Health Commercial $280.50 ↑ +84%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $280.50 ↑ +84%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $280.50 ↑ +84%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $291.00 ↑ +90%
Multiplan Commercial $310.20 ↑ +103%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $313.50 ↑ +105%
Aetna Commercial $9,872.00 ↑ +6361%

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Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $178.53 $135.30 – $9,872.00
AdventHealth Porter Denver $632.42 $53.85 – $101.66
HCA HealthONE AURORA Aurora $1,650.79 $207.79 – $220.38
HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's Denver $991.50 $178.41 – $220.38
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $1,986.00 $164.35 – $294.52
HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE Thornton $1,564.05 $207.79 – $220.38
HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION Denver $1,176.96 $207.79 – $220.38
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $632.42 $53.85 – $101.66

All Colorado hospitals for this procedure →