Pyruvate 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

$10.12

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.

Full explanation →

What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$44.00

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.

Full explanation →

The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$11.31 with Banner Health vs $41.80 with First Choice of the Midwest — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
?

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
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $11.31 ↑ +12%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $14.05 ↑ +39%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $14.48 ↑ +43%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $14.48 ↑ +43%
Medica Medicare Advantage $14.48 ↑ +43%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $14.48 ↑ +43%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $14.48 ↑ +43%
Humana Medicare Advantage $14.91 ↑ +47%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $14.91 ↑ +47%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $15.20 ↑ +50%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $17.38 ↑ +72%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $20.59 ↑ +103%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $22.70 ↑ +124%
Coventry Auto $25.08 ↑ +148%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $25.88 ↑ +156%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $27.98 ↑ +176%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $28.96 ↑ +186%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $30.80 ↑ +204%
Centivo Self-Funded $34.75 ↑ +243%
United Healthcare Commercial $35.02 ↑ +246%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $35.02 ↑ +246%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $35.20 ↑ +248%
Coventry Workers Comp $35.20 ↑ +248%
Medica Commercial $36.65 ↑ +262%
Decent Health Commercial $37.40 ↑ +270%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $37.40 ↑ +270%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $37.40 ↑ +270%
Aetna Commercial $38.68 ↑ +282%
Multiplan Commercial $41.36 ↑ +309%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $41.80 ↑ +313%

Visitor-reported prices

visitor-reported
Report what you paid sign in to post

Comments

Add a comment sign in to post

Pyruvate at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $9.99 $14.05 – $41.80
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $14.52 $12.28 – $42.68
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $27.10 $18.54 – $42.68
AdventHealth Porter Denver $172.70 $14.19 – $26.79
HCA HealthONE BELMAR ER, A PART OF SWEDISH LAKEWOOD $571.34 $8.47 – $35.19
HCA HealthONE MOUNTAIN RIDGE Thornton $339.16 $6.87 – $35.19
AdventHealth Littleton Littleton $172.70 $14.19 – $26.79
AdventHealth Avista Louisville $172.70 $14.19 – $26.79

All Colorado hospitals for this procedure →