Asp & inj w/heparin pleurx cath at Banner Wyoming Medical Center
1233 E 2nd Street, Casper, WY · Banner Health · · NPI 1346332954
$695.10
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.
$1,655.00
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.
$196.29 with Banner Health vs $3,328.00 with United Healthcare — 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 | $196.29 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming | Blue Select PPO | $488.54 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming | Institutional | $499.45 | ↓ -28% |
| Imagine Health, LLC (wka WISE Provider Network) | WISE PPO | $596.14 | ↓ -14% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $617.95 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $618.26 | ↓ -11% |
| InterWest Health | Medicare Advantage | $630.63 | ↓ -9% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $630.63 | ↓ -9% |
| Prime Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $630.63 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | Commercial | $632.49 | ↓ -9% |
| Medica | Commercial | $654.30 | ↓ -6% |
| Mountain Health Cooperative (CO-OP) | Mountain Health Plan | $676.11 | ↓ -3% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $690.65 | ↓ -1% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commerical | $690.65 | ↓ -1% |
| First Health | Medical Rental | $697.92 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry | Commercial | $697.92 | ↑ +0% |
| Prime Health Services | Group Health | $705.19 | ↑ +1% |
| InterWest Health | Group Health | $705.19 | ↑ +1% |
| Prime Health Services | Auto & General Liability | $705.19 | ↑ +1% |
| InterWest Health | Auto & General Liability | $705.19 | ↑ +1% |
| InterWest Health | Workers' Comp | $712.46 | ↑ +2% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Comp | $712.46 | ↑ +2% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $834.65 | ↑ +20% |
| NaphCare | Medicare | $896.48 | ↑ +29% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,328.00 | ↑ +379% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |