ShowTheBill Findings https://showthebill.com/findings/ 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z The same MRI, one health system, two Wyoming hospitals https://showthebill.com/findings/same-system-two-prices-torrington-casper/ 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z Banner Health posts an MRI of the brain (CPT 70553) at $1,934.59 cash in its 25-bed Torrington hospital and $1,200.78 in its Casper flagship — on gross charges within $43 of each other. The rural hospital's costs genuinely run higher, but not enough to explain the charges. What the price files and cost reports show. Kirk Haines Why a Medicare patient can owe more at the small rural hospital https://showthebill.com/findings/rural-hospital-coinsurance-trap/ 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z At a Critical Access Hospital, Medicare figures your 20% coinsurance on the hospital's charges — not on what Medicare pays. At Banner's 25-bed Torrington hospital, that turns a $2,816 posted charge for a brain MRI into a $563.20 patient share: more than Medicare's entire payment for the same scan at its Casper flagship. The rule, cited, and the math from the hospital's own price file. Kirk Haines The same CT abdomen-and-pelvis scan, 73 Colorado hospitals, prices 62× apart https://showthebill.com/findings/colorado-ct-price-spread/ 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z One CT code (CPT 74177) carries posted cash prices from $451.57 to $27,983.23 across 73 Colorado hospitals — a 62-fold spread in the hospitals' own price files. What the data shows, and what to do about it. Kirk Haines