Brachy source palladium at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
5555 West Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1154355188
$145.44
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.
$553.00
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.
$63.62 with Health Net vs $414.75 with Provider Network of America — 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 Net | Medicaid | $63.62 | ↓ -56% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $63.62 | ↓ -56% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid | $63.62 | ↓ -56% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $63.62 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $63.62 | ↓ -56% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Family Plan | $63.62 | ↓ -56% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage/Mercy Care Plan | $72.99 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Banner University Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plan | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $74.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $76.51 | ↓ -47% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $77.99 | ↓ -46% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $77.99 | ↓ -46% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $81.71 | ↓ -44% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Alignment Health Plans Medicare Advantage/Eternal Health Plan Medicare/SCAN Health Plan Medicare | $81.71 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $101.02 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $103.99 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $109.93 | ↓ -24% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $111.42 | ↓ -23% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $122.56 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $185.81 | ↑ +28% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $190.93 | ↑ +31% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $190.93 | ↑ +31% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $193.55 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $203.66 | ↑ +40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $213.84 | ↑ +47% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $248.85 | ↑ +71% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $248.85 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $252.17 | ↑ +73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $254.57 | ↑ +75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $254.57 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $267.65 | ↑ +84% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $268.20 | ↑ +84% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $280.37 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $291.43 | ↑ +100% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $295.30 | ↑ +103% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $298.62 | ↑ +105% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $303.04 | ↑ +108% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $315.21 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $316.87 | ↑ +118% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $387.10 | ↑ +166% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $414.75 | ↑ +185% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Brachy source palladium at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $112.67 | $63.62 – $366.40 |
| Banner Gateway Medical Center | Gilbert | $97.20 | $63.62 – $243.00 |