Injection, glucarpidase at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
5555 West Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1154355188
$8.78
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.
$225.00
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.
$45.00 with Aetna vs $2,804.15 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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| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $45.00 | ↑ +413% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $57.15 | ↑ +551% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $67.50 | ↑ +669% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage/Mercy Care Plan | $72.99 | ↑ +731% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $75.60 | ↑ +761% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $78.75 | ↑ +797% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Alignment Health Plans Medicare Advantage/Eternal Health Plan Medicare/SCAN Health Plan Medicare | $90.00 | ↑ +925% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $101.25 | ↑ +1053% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $101.25 | ↑ +1053% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $109.12 | ↑ +1143% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $112.50 | ↑ +1181% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $112.50 | ↑ +1181% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $114.08 | ↑ +1199% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $118.58 | ↑ +1251% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $120.15 | ↑ +1268% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $121.50 | ↑ +1284% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $121.50 | ↑ +1284% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $157.50 | ↑ +1694% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $168.75 | ↑ +1822% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $411.74 | ↑ +4590% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Family Plan | $411.74 | ↑ +4590% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $411.74 | ↑ +4590% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $411.74 | ↑ +4590% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $411.74 | ↑ +4590% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid | $411.74 | ↑ +4590% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $623.67 | ↑ +7003% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $692.97 | ↑ +7793% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $818.21 | ↑ +9219% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $988.18 | ↑ +11155% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $988.18 | ↑ +11155% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $988.18 | ↑ +11155% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $2,103.11 | ↑ +23853% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $2,103.11 | ↑ +23853% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $2,243.32 | ↑ +25450% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $2,355.47 | ↑ +26728% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $2,804.15 | ↑ +31838% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $2,804.15 | ↑ +31838% |