Smear fluorescent and/or acid fast stain at Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus
2000 Boise Avenue, Loveland, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1720004450
$18.97
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$68.00
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.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$5.23 with United Healthcare vs $54.15 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
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 |
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| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $5.23 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $5.39 | ↓ -72% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $5.39 | ↓ -72% |
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $5.39 | ↓ -72% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $5.39 | ↓ -72% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $5.39 | ↓ -72% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $5.55 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $5.55 | ↓ -71% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $5.66 | ↓ -70% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $6.47 | ↓ -66% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $8.45 | ↓ -55% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $9.63 | ↓ -49% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $10.78 | ↓ -43% |
| Centivo | Self-Funded | $12.94 | ↓ -32% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $13.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $14.65 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option | $26.68 | ↑ +41% |
| Coventry | Auto | $32.49 | ↑ +71% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Colorado Doctors Plan | $36.25 | ↑ +91% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Exchange | $45.37 | ↑ +139% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $45.37 | ↑ +139% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan | $45.60 | ↑ +140% |
| Coventry | Workers Comp | $45.60 | ↑ +140% |
| Medica | Commercial | $47.48 | ↑ +150% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $48.45 | ↑ +155% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $48.45 | ↑ +155% |
| Decent Health | Commercial | $48.45 | ↑ +155% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $50.10 | ↑ +164% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $53.58 | ↑ +182% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $54.15 | ↑ +185% |
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Smear fluorescent and/or acid fast stain at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $9.86 | $5.23 – $54.15 |
| Sterling Regional Medical Center | Sterling | $29.24 | $5.39 – $55.29 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $45.42 | $24.02 – $55.29 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | $408.20 | $5.28 – $9.97 |
| HCA HealthONE PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S REHABILITATION, A PART OF SPALDING REHABILITATION | Denver | $125.26 | $5.34 – $5.66 |
| AdventHealth Littleton | Littleton | $408.20 | $5.28 – $9.97 |
| AdventHealth Avista | Louisville | $408.20 | $5.28 – $9.97 |
| AdventHealth Castle Rock | Castle Rock | $408.20 | $5.28 – $9.97 |