Observation per hour at Chandler Regional Medical Center
1955 W Frye Rd, Chandler, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1700910189
$72.63
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.
$271.00
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.
$30.75 with Health Choice vs $4,573.00 with United — 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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| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $30.75 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $30.75 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|DignityHealthEmployee | $37.94 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Exchange | $78.59 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus SureFit | $86.72 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $102.78 | ↑ +42% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $102.78 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $111.11 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $130.08 | ↑ +79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $130.08 | ↑ +79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $130.08 | ↑ +79% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $137.04 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $146.34 | ↑ +101% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $151.76 | ↑ +109% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Workers Comp | $203.52 | ↑ +180% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $227.64 | ↑ +213% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $3,370.00 | ↑ +4540% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,491.00 | ↑ +6083% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4,573.00 | ↑ +6196% |
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Observation per hour at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Ocotillo Medical Center | Chandler | $36.40 | $26.00 – $10,759.00 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $66.67 | $30.75 – $208.67 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $57.24 | $26.00 – $10,759.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $31.85 | $26.00 – $10,636.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $27.43 | $26.00 – $10,636.00 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $28.99 | $26.00 – $10,759.00 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $54.91 | $26.00 – $10,759.00 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $26.91 | $26.00 – $10,541.00 |