Carotene at Arizona General Hospital Mesa
9130 E Elliot Rd, Mesa, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689121188
$99.30
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.
$402.00
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.
$5.53 with United vs $328.44 with Multiplan — 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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| United | Commercial|Options | $5.53 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $5.53 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↓ -91% |
| Mercy Care | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↓ -91% |
| WellCare | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↓ -91% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $9.32 | ↓ -91% |
| Fresenius | Medicare|All Plans | $9.41 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.45 | ↓ -90% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.45 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.45 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.46 | ↓ -90% |
| Devoted HP | Medicare|All Plans | $9.50 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $19.13 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $19.13 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.50 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $26.96 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.96 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $44.87 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $44.87 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $213.06 | ↑ +115% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $328.44 | ↑ +231% |
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Carotene at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $8.51 | $9.22 – $50.25 |
| Banner Desert Medical Center | Mesa | $10.05 | $9.22 – $50.25 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $5.63 | $9.22 – $50.25 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $9.08 | $5.17 – $28.40 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $10.72 | $9.22 – $50.25 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $10.85 | $9.22 – $53.60 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $10.45 | $9.22 – $53.60 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $10.12 | $9.22 – $53.60 |