X-ray exam of middle ear at Banner North Colorado Medical Center - Loveland Campus
2000 Boise Avenue, Loveland, CO · Banner Health · · NPI 1720004450
$109.47
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.
$311.00
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.
$79.93 with Banner Health vs $1,324.13 with Centivo — 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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| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $79.93 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | UnitedHealthcare Navigate/Colorado Doctors Plan Colorado Option | $112.00 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $153.00 | ↑ +40% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Colorado Doctors Plan | $155.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Coventry | Auto | $177.27 | ↑ +62% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Exchange | $195.00 | ↑ +78% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $216.00 | ↑ +97% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $217.70 | ↑ +99% |
| Coventry | Workers Comp | $248.80 | ↑ +127% |
| Medica | Commercial | $259.06 | ↑ +137% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | HMO Benefit Plan/Network Benefit Plan/Open Access Plus Benefit Plan | $261.24 | ↑ +139% |
| Rocky Mountain Health Plans | Private Plan/Self Insured Plan | $264.35 | ↑ +141% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $264.35 | ↑ +141% |
| Decent Health | Commercial | $264.35 | ↑ +141% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $292.34 | ↑ +167% |
| First Choice of the Midwest | Commercial | $295.45 | ↑ +170% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Priority/HMO/PPO/Indemnity | $310.15 | ↑ +183% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $535.17 | ↑ +389% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $551.72 | ↑ +404% |
| HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $551.72 | ↑ +404% |
| Medicare | Traditional Medicare | $551.72 | ↑ +404% |
| Clear Spring Health | Medicare Advantage | $551.72 | ↑ +404% |
| Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado | Medicare | $551.72 | ↑ +404% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $568.27 | ↑ +419% |
| Longevity | Medicare Advantage | $568.27 | ↑ +419% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $579.31 | ↑ +429% |
| Assist Health Group | AHG Specialty Network | $662.06 | ↑ +505% |
| Pinnacol Assurance Workers Comp | Pinnacol Assurance WC | $865.10 | ↑ +690% |
| Denver Health Medical Plan | Commercial | $986.14 | ↑ +801% |
| Centivo | Self-Funded | $1,324.13 | ↑ +1110% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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X-ray exam of middle ear at other Colorado hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Fort Collins Medical Center | Fort Collins | $162.03 | $106.00 – $1,322.47 |
| East Morgan County Hospital | Brush | $326.02 | $15.59 – $35.89 |
| AdventHealth Porter | Denver | not published | $81.69 – $1,066.35 |
| HCA HealthONE AURORA | Aurora | not published | $41.55 – $1,171.10 |
| CENTRAL PARK ER, A PART OF ROSE | DENVER | not published | $41.55 – $1,086.50 |
| HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's at Presbyterian St. Luke's | Denver | not published | $41.55 – $1,495.56 |
| HCA HealthONE SKY RIDGE | Lone Tree | not published | $41.55 – $1,262.36 |
| HCA HealthONE SOUTH PARKER ER, A PART OF SKY RIDGE | PARKER | not published | $41.55 – $2,340.78 |