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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) CT scan (with contrast) at Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus
2000 Boise Avenue, Loveland, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1720004450
$382.43
Cash price 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.
$1,145.00
Gross charge 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 $1,087.75 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| United Healthcare | Commercial | $88.40 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Colorado Doctors Plan | $88.40 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Exchange | $88.40 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option | $88.40 | ↓ -77% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $294.26 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $348.58 | ↓ -9% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $359.36 | ↓ -6% |
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $359.36 | ↓ -6% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $359.36 | ↓ -6% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $359.36 | ↓ -6% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $359.36 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $370.14 | ↓ -3% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $370.14 | ↓ -3% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $377.33 | ↓ -1% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $431.23 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan | $489.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $563.48 | ↑ +47% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $642.32 | ↑ +68% |
| Coventry | Auto | $652.65 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $700.00 | ↑ +83% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $742.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $801.50 | ↑ +110% |
| Centivo | Self-Funded | $862.46 | ↑ +126% |
| Coventry | Workers Comp | $916.00 | ↑ +140% |
| Medica | Commercial | $953.78 | ↑ +149% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $973.25 | ↑ +154% |
| Decent Health | Commercial | $973.25 | ↑ +154% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $973.25 | ↑ +154% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,076.30 | ↑ +181% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $1,087.75 | ↑ +184% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) CT scan (with contrast) at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $445.41 | $348.14 – $1,087.75 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $1,055.16 | $358.91 – $3,790.76 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $2,329.17 | $52.67 – $121.25 |