Nasopharyngoscopy w/endoscope 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

$155.11

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.

$347.00

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.

$89.18 with Banner Health vs $8,568.00 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 $89.18 ↓ -43%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $189.49 ↑ +22%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $195.35 ↑ +26%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $195.35 ↑ +26%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $195.35 ↑ +26%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $195.35 ↑ +26%
Medica Medicare Advantage $195.35 ↑ +26%
Coventry Auto $197.79 ↑ +28%
Humana Medicare Advantage $201.21 ↑ +30%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $201.21 ↑ +30%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $205.12 ↑ +32%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $207.07 ↑ +33%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $234.42 ↑ +51%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $242.90 ↑ +57%
Coventry Workers Comp $277.60 ↑ +79%
Medica Commercial $289.05 ↑ +86%
Decent Health Commercial $294.95 ↑ +90%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $294.95 ↑ +90%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $294.95 ↑ +90%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $294.95 ↑ +90%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $306.31 ↑ +97%
Multiplan Commercial $326.18 ↑ +110%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $329.65 ↑ +113%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $349.17 ↑ +125%
Centivo Self-Funded $468.84 ↑ +202%
Aetna Commercial $8,568.00 ↑ +5424%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare not published by hospital

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Nasopharyngoscopy w/endoscope at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $124.82 $81.75 – $284.21
HCA HealthONE AURORA Aurora $760.19 $304.80 – $317.63
CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE DENVER $1,068.00 $304.80 – $317.63
HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's Denver $717.25 $304.80 – $317.63
HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE Lone Tree $1,693.00 $304.80 – $317.63
HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE PARKER $1,693.00 $76.95 – $317.63
HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH LAKEWOOD $1,777.22 $304.80 – $317.63
HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE Thornton not published $304.80 – $317.63

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