Cell count w differential body fluid at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
5555 West Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1154355188
$3.55
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.
$17.00
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.
$5.60 with Wellpoint vs $72.99 with Mercy Care — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Banner University Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Family Plan | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plan | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $5.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $5.71 | ↑ +61% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $5.77 | ↑ +63% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $5.88 | ↑ +66% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $5.88 | ↑ +66% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $5.95 | ↑ +68% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Alignment Health Plans Medicare Advantage/Eternal Health Plan Medicare/SCAN Health Plan Medicare | $6.16 | ↑ +74% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.16 | ↑ +74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $7.49 | ↑ +111% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $7.62 | ↑ +115% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $7.65 | ↑ +115% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $7.65 | ↑ +115% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $7.84 | ↑ +121% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $8.29 | ↑ +134% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $8.40 | ↑ +137% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $8.96 | ↑ +152% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $9.18 | ↑ +159% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $9.24 | ↑ +160% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $9.83 | ↑ +177% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $10.36 | ↑ +192% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $10.92 | ↑ +208% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $11.45 | ↑ +223% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $11.90 | ↑ +235% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $12.60 | ↑ +255% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $12.75 | ↑ +259% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $18.80 | ↑ +430% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $19.25 | ↑ +442% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $19.25 | ↑ +442% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $19.98 | ↑ +463% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $20.53 | ↑ +478% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $21.56 | ↑ +507% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $23.51 | ↑ +562% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $25.67 | ↑ +623% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $25.67 | ↑ +623% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage/Mercy Care Plan | $72.99 | ↑ +1956% |
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Cell count w differential body fluid at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $118.33 | $5.60 – $94.71 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $9.88 | $5.60 – $12.75 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $4.88 | $5.60 – $12.75 |
| Banner Ocotillo Medical Center | Chandler | $5.73 | $5.60 – $12.75 |
| Banner Payson Medical Center | Payson | $7.79 | $5.60 – $15.30 |
| Banner Page Hospital | Page | $10.35 | $5.60 – $16.15 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $102.14 | $3.36 – $364.39 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center | Phoenix | $130.27 | $2.35 – $269.39 |