Contrast baths charges at Arizona General Hospital Mesa
9130 E Elliot Rd, Mesa, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689121188
$27.67
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.
$112.00
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.
$14.66 with Health Choice vs $91.51 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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| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.66 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.66 | ↓ -47% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.66 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46.30 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $46.30 | ↑ +67% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $46.71 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $46.71 | ↑ +69% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $59.36 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $62.27 | ↑ +125% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $91.51 | ↑ +231% |
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Contrast baths charges at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $39.81 | $29.60 – $268.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $26.34 | $29.60 – $268.00 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $18.40 | $23.00 – $241.00 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $20.70 | $23.00 – $235.00 |
| Banner Del Webb Medical Center | Sun City West | $17.36 | $23.00 – $241.00 |
| Banner Payson Medical Center | Payson | $11.42 | $11.66 – $44.10 |
| Banner Thunderbird Medical Center | Glendale | $17.36 | $23.00 – $241.00 |
| Banner Page Hospital | Page | $32.66 | $13.57 – $54.15 |