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Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) MRI (with contrast) at Banner Wyoming Medical Center
1233 E 2nd Street, Casper, WY · Banner Health · · NPI 1346332954
$995.40
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.
$2,370.00
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.
$357.13 with United Healthcare vs $2,322.60 with Prime Health Services — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $357.13 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $364.27 | ↓ -63% |
| InterWest Health | Medicare Advantage | $364.27 | ↓ -63% |
| Prime Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $364.27 | ↓ -63% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $482.13 | ↓ -52% |
| NaphCare | Medicare | $517.84 | ↓ -48% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $639.90 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming | Blue Select PPO | $1,592.64 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming | Institutional | $1,628.19 | ↑ +64% |
| Imagine Health, LLC (wka WISE Provider Network) | WISE PPO | $1,943.40 | ↑ +95% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,962.36 | ↑ +97% |
| Hue Health, Inc | Medicare Advantage | $2,014.50 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | Commercial | $2,061.90 | ↑ +107% |
| Medica | Commercial | $2,133.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Mountain Health Cooperative (CO-OP) | Mountain Health Plan | $2,204.10 | ↑ +121% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commerical | $2,251.50 | ↑ +126% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,251.50 | ↑ +126% |
| Coventry | Commercial | $2,275.20 | ↑ +129% |
| First Health | Medical Rental | $2,275.20 | ↑ +129% |
| InterWest Health | Auto & General Liability | $2,298.90 | ↑ +131% |
| InterWest Health | Group Health | $2,298.90 | ↑ +131% |
| Prime Health Services | Auto & General Liability | $2,298.90 | ↑ +131% |
| Prime Health Services | Group Health | $2,298.90 | ↑ +131% |
| InterWest Health | Workers' Comp | $2,322.60 | ↑ +133% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Comp | $2,322.60 | ↑ +133% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) MRI (with contrast) at other Wyoming hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Hospital | Torrington | $1,534.19 | $954.80 – $2,104.90 |
| Washakie Medical Center | Worland | $1,447.39 | $87.84 – $177.51 |
| Platte County Hospital | Wheatland | $1,469.09 | $1,041.60 – $2,104.90 |