Glucose tolerance test (gtt) >3 specimens each additional 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

$2.76

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.

$12.00

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.

$3.08 with Banner Health vs $11.40 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 $3.08 ↑ +12%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $3.80 ↑ +38%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $3.92 ↑ +42%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $3.92 ↑ +42%
Medica Medicare Advantage $3.92 ↑ +42%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $3.92 ↑ +42%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $3.92 ↑ +42%
Humana Medicare Advantage $4.04 ↑ +46%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $4.04 ↑ +46%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $4.12 ↑ +49%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $4.70 ↑ +70%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $5.62 ↑ +104%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $6.15 ↑ +123%
Coventry Auto $6.84 ↑ +148%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $7.01 ↑ +154%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $7.63 ↑ +176%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $7.84 ↑ +184%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $8.40 ↑ +204%
Centivo Self-Funded $9.41 ↑ +241%
United Healthcare Commercial $9.55 ↑ +246%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $9.55 ↑ +246%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $9.60 ↑ +248%
Coventry Workers Comp $9.60 ↑ +248%
Medica Commercial $10.00 ↑ +262%
Decent Health Commercial $10.20 ↑ +270%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $10.20 ↑ +270%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $10.20 ↑ +270%
Aetna Commercial $10.55 ↑ +282%
Multiplan Commercial $11.28 ↑ +309%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $11.40 ↑ +313%

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Glucose tolerance test (gtt) >3 specimens each additional at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $2.72 $3.80 – $11.40
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $3.96 $3.35 – $11.64
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $7.39 $5.06 – $11.64
AdventHealth Porter Denver $137.30 $3.84 – $7.25
CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE DENVER $337.00 $1.78 – $11.22
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $175.00 $2.24 – $20.43
HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH LAKEWOOD $324.44 $2.29 – $11.22
HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE Thornton $287.02 $1.86 – $11.22

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