Tissue exam koh skin/hair/nails 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

$59.99

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.

$215.00

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.

$4.14 with United Healthcare vs $60.80 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.

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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 $4.14 ↓ -93%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $4.27 ↓ -93%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $4.27 ↓ -93%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $4.27 ↓ -93%
Medica Medicare Advantage $4.27 ↓ -93%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $4.27 ↓ -93%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $4.40 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Advantage $4.40 ↓ -93%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $4.48 ↓ -93%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $5.12 ↓ -91%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $6.70 ↓ -89%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $7.63 ↓ -87%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $8.54 ↓ -86%
Centivo Self-Funded $10.25 ↓ -83%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $10.89 ↓ -82%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $16.45 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $29.95 ↓ -50%
Coventry Auto $36.48 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $40.70 ↓ -32%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $50.94 ↓ -15%
United Healthcare Commercial $50.94 ↓ -15%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $51.20 ↓ -15%
Coventry Workers Comp $51.20 ↓ -15%
Medica Commercial $53.31 ↓ -11%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $54.40 ↓ -9%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $54.40 ↓ -9%
Decent Health Commercial $54.40 ↓ -9%
Aetna Commercial $56.26 ↓ -6%
Multiplan Commercial $60.16 ↑ +0%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $60.80 ↑ +1%

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Tissue exam koh skin/hair/nails at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $31.17 $4.14 – $60.80
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $92.45 $4.27 – $62.08
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $143.62 $26.97 – $62.08
AdventHealth Porter Denver $117.37 $4.18 – $7.90
HCA HealthONE AURORA Aurora $288.44 $2.28 – $10.38
CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE DENVER $432.00 $1.95 – $10.38
HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's Denver $431.75 $2.72 – $10.38
HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE Lone Tree $255.52 $2.45 – $10.38

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