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Urinalysis (without microscopy) 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

$9.43

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.

$53.00

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.

$1.80 with Banner Health vs $6.65 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
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $1.80 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare UHC Medicare Advantage $2.18 ↓ -77%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Medicare $2.25 ↓ -76%
Clear Spring Health Medicare Advantage $2.25 ↓ -76%
HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. Medicare Advantage $2.25 ↓ -76%
Medica Medicare Advantage $2.25 ↓ -76%
Medicare Traditional Medicare $2.25 ↓ -76%
Humana Medicare Advantage $2.32 ↓ -75%
Longevity Medicare Advantage $2.32 ↓ -75%
Devoted Health Services Medicare Advantage $2.36 ↓ -75%
Assist Health Group AHG Specialty Network $2.70 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option $3.28 ↓ -65%
Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp Pinnacol Assurance WC $3.53 ↓ -63%
Coventry Auto $3.99 ↓ -58%
Denver Health Medical Plan Commercial $4.02 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare UHC Colorado Doctors Plan $4.45 ↓ -53%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity $4.50 ↓ -52%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $4.90 ↓ -48%
Centivo Self-Funded $5.40 ↓ -43%
United Healthcare Commercial $5.57 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare UHC Exchange $5.57 ↓ -41%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan $5.60 ↓ -41%
Coventry Workers Comp $5.60 ↓ -41%
Medica Commercial $5.83 ↓ -38%
Apostrophe, Inc. Commercial $5.95 ↓ -37%
Decent Health Commercial $5.95 ↓ -37%
Rocky Mountain Health Plans Private Plan/Self Insured Plan $5.95 ↓ -37%
Aetna Commercial $6.15 ↓ -35%
Multiplan Commercial $6.58 ↓ -30%
First Choice of the Midwest Commercial $6.65 ↓ -29%

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Urinalysis (without microscopy) at other Colorado hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center Fort Collins $6.78 $2.18 – $6.65
Sterling Regional Medical Center Sterling $20.78 $1.95 – $6.79
East Morgan County Hospital Brush $3.85 $2.95 – $6.79

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