Myelography via inj w/s&i 2+ regions 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

$1,400.00

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.

$3,132.00

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.

$771.14 with United Healthcare vs $13,923.00 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
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $771.14 ↓ -45%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $794.99 ↓ -43%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $794.99 ↓ -43%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $794.99 ↓ -43%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $794.99 ↓ -43%
Medica Medicare Advantage $794.99 ↓ -43%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $804.92 ↓ -43%
Humana Medicare Advantage $818.84 ↓ -42%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $818.84 ↓ -42%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $834.74 ↓ -40%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $953.99 ↓ -32%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $1,246.54 ↓ -11%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $1,420.97 ↑ +1%
Coventry Auto $1,785.24 ↑ +28%
Centivo Self-Funded $1,907.98 ↑ +36%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $2,027.22 ↑ +45%
Coventry Workers Comp $2,505.60 ↑ +79%
Medica Commercial $2,608.96 ↑ +86%
Decent Health Commercial $2,662.20 ↑ +90%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $2,662.20 ↑ +90%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $2,662.20 ↑ +90%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $2,662.20 ↑ +90%
Multiplan Commercial $2,944.08 ↑ +110%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $2,975.40 ↑ +113%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $3,990.00 ↑ +185%
Aetna Commercial $13,923.00 ↑ +895%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare not published by hospital

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Myelography via inj w/s&i 2+ regions at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $1,234.01 $770.17 – $13,923.00
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $529.52 $346.80 – $1,205.71
AdventHealth Porter Denver $6,929.41 $214.21 – $1,529.85
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $6,929.41 $214.21 – $1,529.85
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $6,929.41 $214.21 – $1,546.83
AdventHealth Castle Rock Castle Rock $6,929.41 $214.21 – $1,529.85
AdventHealth Parker Parker $6,929.41 $214.21 – $1,529.85
HCA HealthONE AURORA Aurora not published $1,232.06 – $1,283.93

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