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Breast Biopsy (ultrasound-guided, percutaneous) at Banner Wyoming Medical Center
1233 E 2nd Street, Casper, WY · Banner Health · · NPI 1346332954
$1,179.36
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.
$2,808.00
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.
$758.16 with Banner Health vs $5,606.00 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 | $758.16 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming | Blue Select PPO | $1,886.98 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming | Institutional | $1,929.10 | ↑ +64% |
| Imagine Health, LLC (wka WISE Provider Network) | WISE PPO | $2,302.56 | ↑ +95% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $2,386.80 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | Commercial | $2,442.96 | ↑ +107% |
| Medica | Commercial | $2,527.20 | ↑ +114% |
| Mountain Health Cooperative (CO-OP) | Mountain Health Plan | $2,611.44 | ↑ +121% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commerical | $2,667.60 | ↑ +126% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,667.60 | ↑ +126% |
| Coventry | Commercial | $2,695.68 | ↑ +129% |
| First Health | Medical Rental | $2,695.68 | ↑ +129% |
| InterWest Health | Auto & General Liability | $2,723.76 | ↑ +131% |
| InterWest Health | Group Health | $2,723.76 | ↑ +131% |
| Prime Health Services | Auto & General Liability | $2,723.76 | ↑ +131% |
| Prime Health Services | Group Health | $2,723.76 | ↑ +131% |
| InterWest Health | Workers' Comp | $2,751.84 | ↑ +133% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Comp | $2,751.84 | ↑ +133% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,606.00 | ↑ +375% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Breast Biopsy (ultrasound-guided, percutaneous) at other Wyoming hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Hospital | Torrington | $1,757.70 | $1,145.76 – $2,525.88 |
| Washakie Medical Center | Worland | $1,932.17 | $158.40 – $320.10 |
| Platte County Hospital | Wheatland | $1,807.18 | $1,249.92 – $2,525.88 |