Tissue culture skin/biopsy at Banner Gateway Medical Center
1900 North Higley Road, Gilbert, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1699884858
$126.29
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.
$679.00
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.
$140.73 with Care 1st vs $730.49 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona — 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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| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Wellpoint (fka Amerigroup) | Medicare Advantage HMO | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $140.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $142.13 | ↑ +13% |
| Carekin | Medicare Advantage | $147.77 | ↑ +17% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $147.77 | ↑ +17% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $148.05 | ↑ +17% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $154.80 | ↑ +23% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $154.80 | ↑ +23% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $190.35 | ↑ +51% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $190.35 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $191.39 | ↑ +52% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $197.02 | ↑ +56% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $208.28 | ↑ +65% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $211.09 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $222.92 | ↑ +77% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $228.42 | ↑ +81% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $232.20 | ↑ +84% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $260.29 | ↑ +106% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $271.67 | ↑ +115% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $287.77 | ↑ +128% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $296.10 | ↑ +134% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $301.85 | ↑ +139% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $316.65 | ↑ +151% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $317.25 | ↑ +151% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $502.12 | ↑ +298% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $519.86 | ↑ +312% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $547.87 | ↑ +334% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $584.39 | ↑ +363% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $613.60 | ↑ +386% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $649.75 | ↑ +414% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $730.49 | ↑ +478% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $730.49 | ↑ +478% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $730.49 | ↑ +478% |
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Tissue culture skin/biopsy at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $264.45 | $78.81 – $433.45 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $167.71 | $140.73 – $317.25 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $103.64 | $140.73 – $338.40 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $99.83 | $140.73 – $338.40 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $144.63 | $140.73 – $317.25 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $146.66 | $140.73 – $543.20 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $122.22 | $140.73 – $317.25 |
| Banner Del Webb Medical Center | Sun City West | $139.87 | $140.73 – $543.20 |