Parathyroid planar imaging 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

$538.95

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.

$1,091.00

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.

$280.39 with Banner Health vs $1,343.45 with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado — 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 $280.39 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $392.21 ↓ -27%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $404.34 ↓ -25%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $404.34 ↓ -25%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $404.34 ↓ -25%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $404.34 ↓ -25%
Medica Medicare Advantage $404.34 ↓ -25%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $416.47 ↓ -23%
Humana Medicare Advantage $416.47 ↓ -23%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $424.56 ↓ -21%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $485.21 ↓ -10%
United Healthcare Commercial $510.59 ↓ -5%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $510.59 ↓ -5%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $510.59 ↓ -5%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $510.59 ↓ -5%
Coventry Auto $621.87 ↑ +15%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $634.01 ↑ +18%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $722.72 ↑ +34%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $763.70 ↑ +42%
Coventry Workers Comp $872.80 ↑ +62%
Medica Commercial $908.80 ↑ +69%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $916.44 ↑ +70%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $927.35 ↑ +72%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $927.35 ↑ +72%
Decent Health Commercial $927.35 ↑ +72%
Aetna Commercial $958.99 ↑ +78%
Centivo Self-Funded $970.42 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,025.54 ↑ +90%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $1,036.45 ↑ +92%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $1,343.45 ↑ +149%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare not published by hospital

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