Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at Washakie Medical Center

400 S 15th Street, Worland, WY · Banner Health · · NPI 1255368593

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

$2,045.68

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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.

$3,653.00

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.

$485.76 with Banner Health vs $2,232.89 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

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
Banner Health Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select $485.76 ↓ -76%
Humana Medicare Advantage $485.76 ↓ -76%
Medica Medicare Advantage $485.76 ↓ -76%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN Tricare $485.76 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Nebraska Medicaid/CHIP $485.76 ↓ -76%
Prime Health Services Medicare Advantage $495.48 ↓ -76%
InterWest Health Medicare Advantage $495.48 ↓ -76%
Medica Commercial $960.39 ↓ -53%
First Choice Health Network Commerical $961.40 ↓ -53%
Hue Health, Inc Medicare Advantage $961.40 ↓ -53%
Imagine Health, LLC (wka WISE Provider Network) WISE PPO $961.40 ↓ -53%
Mountain Health Cooperative (CO-OP) Mountain Health Plan $961.40 ↓ -53%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming Institutional $961.40 ↓ -53%
Coventry Commercial $971.52 ↓ -53%
Coventry Workers Comp $971.52 ↓ -53%
Multiplan Commercial $981.64 ↓ -52%
Prime Health Services Auto & General Liability $981.64 ↓ -52%
Prime Health Services Group Health $981.64 ↓ -52%
InterWest Health Group Health $981.64 ↓ -52%
InterWest Health Auto & General Liability $981.64 ↓ -52%
Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY Commercial $981.64 ↓ -52%
InterWest Health Workers' Comp $991.76 ↓ -52%
Prime Health Services Worker's Comp $991.76 ↓ -52%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $1,168.80 ↓ -43%
United Healthcare Commercial $2,232.89 ↑ +9%

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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at other Wyoming hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Banner Wyoming Medical Center Casper $1,940.40 $831.60 – $10,877.00
Community Hospital Torrington $2,465.78 $1,071.40 – $2,361.95
Platte County Hospital Wheatland $2,392.72 $1,168.80 – $2,361.95

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