Brain image 4+ views at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
5555 West Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1154355188
$272.20
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.
$1,111.00
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.
$72.99 with Mercy Care vs $2,477.59 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage/Mercy Care Plan | $72.99 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $334.05 | ↑ +23% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $354.82 | ↑ +30% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Family Plan | $354.82 | ↑ +30% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $354.82 | ↑ +30% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $354.82 | ↑ +30% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid | $354.82 | ↑ +30% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $354.82 | ↑ +30% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $373.30 | ↑ +37% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $388.85 | ↑ +43% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $499.95 | ↑ +84% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $499.95 | ↑ +84% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $513.28 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $545.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Banner University Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plan | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $573.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $585.50 | ↑ +115% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $590.91 | ↑ +117% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $599.94 | ↑ +120% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $602.38 | ↑ +121% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $602.38 | ↑ +121% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Alignment Health Plans Medicare Advantage/Eternal Health Plan Medicare/SCAN Health Plan Medicare | $631.07 | ↑ +132% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $631.07 | ↑ +132% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $641.05 | ↑ +136% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $729.93 | ↑ +168% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $763.26 | ↑ +180% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $777.70 | ↑ +186% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $780.23 | ↑ +187% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $803.18 | ↑ +195% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $833.25 | ↑ +206% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $849.08 | ↑ +212% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $858.64 | ↑ +215% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $858.64 | ↑ +215% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $860.55 | ↑ +216% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $915.88 | ↑ +236% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $946.61 | ↑ +248% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $961.67 | ↑ +253% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $1,144.85 | ↑ +321% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $1,144.85 | ↑ +321% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $2,100.33 | ↑ +672% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $2,288.79 | ↑ +741% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,477.59 | ↑ +810% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $441.07 | $334.05 – $946.61 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $622.88 | $260.07 – $1,832.00 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $348.85 | $354.82 – $946.61 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $218.87 | $260.07 – $860.55 |
| Banner Desert Medical Center | Mesa | $311.08 | $354.82 – $946.61 |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center | Phoenix | $234.42 | $354.82 – $946.61 |
| Banner Gateway Medical Center | Gilbert | $321.08 | $354.82 – $946.61 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $148.87 | $354.82 – $946.61 |