Mayo fbl culture fungi blood 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

$19.25

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.

$69.00

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.

$17.73 with Banner Health vs $65.55 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 $17.73 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $19.85 ↑ +3%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $20.46 ↑ +6%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $20.46 ↑ +6%
Medica Medicare Advantage $20.46 ↑ +6%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $20.46 ↑ +6%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $20.46 ↑ +6%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $21.07 ↑ +9%
Humana Medicare Advantage $21.07 ↑ +9%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $21.48 ↑ +12%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $24.55 ↑ +28%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $32.08 ↑ +67%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $32.29 ↑ +68%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $36.57 ↑ +90%
Coventry Auto $39.33 ↑ +104%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $40.92 ↑ +113%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $43.88 ↑ +128%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $48.30 ↑ +151%
Centivo Self-Funded $49.10 ↑ +155%
United Healthcare Commercial $54.92 ↑ +185%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $54.92 ↑ +185%
Coventry Workers Comp $55.20 ↑ +187%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $55.20 ↑ +187%
Medica Commercial $57.48 ↑ +199%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $58.65 ↑ +205%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $58.65 ↑ +205%
Decent Health Commercial $58.65 ↑ +205%
Aetna Commercial $60.65 ↑ +215%
Multiplan Commercial $64.86 ↑ +237%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $65.55 ↑ +241%

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