_fragile x methylation-sendout at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
5555 West Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1154355188
$29.29
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.
$135.00
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.
$44.89 with Care 1st vs $233.01 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 | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Banner University Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plan | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Family Plan | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $44.89 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $45.36 | ↑ +55% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $46.24 | ↑ +58% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $47.13 | ↑ +61% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $47.13 | ↑ +61% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $47.25 | ↑ +61% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $49.38 | ↑ +69% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Alignment Health Plans Medicare Advantage/Eternal Health Plan Medicare/SCAN Health Plan Medicare | $49.38 | ↑ +69% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $60.75 | ↑ +107% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $60.75 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $61.05 | ↑ +108% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $62.85 | ↑ +115% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $66.44 | ↑ +127% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $67.33 | ↑ +130% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $67.99 | ↑ +132% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $71.14 | ↑ +143% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $72.90 | ↑ +149% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage/Mercy Care Plan | $72.99 | ↑ +149% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $74.07 | ↑ +153% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $78.79 | ↑ +169% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $83.03 | ↑ +183% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $87.54 | ↑ +199% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $91.79 | ↑ +213% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $94.50 | ↑ +223% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $101.01 | ↑ +245% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $101.25 | ↑ +246% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $150.74 | ↑ +415% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $160.17 | ↑ +447% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $174.76 | ↑ +497% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $174.76 | ↑ +497% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $186.41 | ↑ +536% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $188.45 | ↑ +543% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $195.72 | ↑ +568% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $233.01 | ↑ +696% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $233.01 | ↑ +696% |
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_fragile x methylation-sendout at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $368.02 | $44.89 – $1,151.92 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center | Phoenix | $265.11 | $18.85 – $113.76 |
| Yavapai Regional Medical Center (East) | Prescott | $1,110.04 | $44.89 – $1,271.60 |
| Chandler Regional Medical Center | Chandler | $400.93 | $26.93 – $1,256.64 |