Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
5555 West Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1154355188
$125.66
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.
$610.00
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.
$63.52 with Aetna vs $2,341.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $63.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $67.49 | ↓ -46% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage/Mercy Care Plan | $72.99 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $79.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $122.00 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $123.35 | ↓ -2% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $144.57 | ↑ +15% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $144.57 | ↑ +15% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid | $144.57 | ↑ +15% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $144.57 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $154.94 | ↑ +23% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $183.00 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $204.96 | ↑ +63% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $213.50 | ↑ +70% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Alignment Health Plans Medicare Advantage/Eternal Health Plan Medicare/SCAN Health Plan Medicare | $244.00 | ↑ +94% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $274.50 | ↑ +118% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $274.50 | ↑ +118% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $305.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $305.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $317.07 | ↑ +152% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $317.07 | ↑ +152% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $321.47 | ↑ +156% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $329.40 | ↑ +162% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $329.40 | ↑ +162% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $338.20 | ↑ +169% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $355.11 | ↑ +183% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $400.77 | ↑ +219% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $419.07 | ↑ +233% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $422.75 | ↑ +236% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $422.75 | ↑ +236% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $427.00 | ↑ +240% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $457.50 | ↑ +264% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $2,128.00 | ↑ +1593% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $2,224.00 | ↑ +1670% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,341.00 | ↑ +1763% |
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Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $211.07 | $24.32 – $660.66 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $150.06 | $63.52 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $90.69 | $34.62 – $1,013.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $124.26 | $34.62 – $1,013.00 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $130.54 | $63.52 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $118.95 | $63.52 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $107.36 | $34.62 – $1,664.00 |
| Banner Del Webb Medical Center | Sun City West | $127.49 | $63.52 – $2,128.00 |