Ultrasound Guidance for a Needle Procedure at Community Hospital

2000 Campbell Drive, Torrington, WY · Banner Health · · NPI 1669410643

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 2, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$475.42

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.

$568.00

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.

$62.92 with NaphCare vs $539.60 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.

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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
NaphCare Federal Prison System $62.92 ↓ -87%
Humana Medicare Advantage $62.92 ↓ -87%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare $62.92 ↓ -87%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. HMO Medicare Advantage Plan/PPO Medicare Advantage Plan $62.92 ↓ -87%
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus $62.92 ↓ -87%
InterWest Health Medicare Advantage $64.18 ↓ -87%
Prime Health Services Medicare Advantage $64.18 ↓ -87%
Medica Medicare Advantage $64.35 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Nebraska Medicaid/CHIP $68.64 ↓ -86%
Medica Commercial $135.71 ↓ -71%
Imagine Health, LLC (wka WISE Provider Network) WISE PPO $135.85 ↓ -71%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming Institutional $135.85 ↓ -71%
First Choice Health Network Commerical $135.85 ↓ -71%
Mountain Health Cooperative (CO-OP) Mountain Health Plan $135.85 ↓ -71%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $135.85 ↓ -71%
Coventry Workers Comp $137.28 ↓ -71%
First Health Medical Rental $137.28 ↓ -71%
Midlands Choice Commercial $137.28 ↓ -71%
Coventry Commercial $137.28 ↓ -71%
InterWest Health Auto & General Liability $138.71 ↓ -71%
Multiplan Commercial $138.71 ↓ -71%
Prime Health Services Auto & General Liability $138.71 ↓ -71%
Prime Health Services Group Health $138.71 ↓ -71%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY Commercial $138.71 ↓ -71%
InterWest Health Group Health $138.71 ↓ -71%
Prime Health Services Worker's Comp $140.14 ↓ -71%
InterWest Health Workers' Comp $140.14 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $249.92 ↓ -47%
United Healthcare Commercial $539.60 ↑ +13%
Molina Healthcare Medicaid/CHIP not published by hospital —

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Ultrasound Guidance for a Needle Procedure at other Wyoming hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Wyoming Medical Center Casper $510.30 $328.05 – $1,178.55
Washakie Medical Center Worland $512.34 $68.64 – $138.71
Platte County Hospital Wheatland $489.62 $68.64 – $138.71

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