Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at Arizona General Hospital Mesa
9130 E Elliot Rd, Mesa, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689121188
$524.88
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.
$2,125.00
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.
$4.81 with Cigna vs $1,657.70 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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| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Mercy Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $8.38 | ↓ -98% |
| Mercy Care | Medicare|All Plans | $8.38 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | Medicare|All Plans | $8.38 | ↓ -98% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $8.38 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.38 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $8.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Fresenius | Medicare|All Plans | $8.55 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Devoted HP | Medicare|All Plans | $8.64 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $15.03 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $15.03 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.04 | ↓ -96% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $1,075.37 | ↑ +105% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,657.70 | ↑ +216% |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $1,591.87 | $5.94 – $1,636.25 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $486.63 | $4.81 – $1,657.70 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center | Phoenix | $1,163.19 | $5.94 – $773.55 |
| Yavapai Regional Medical Center (East) | Prescott | $4,345.16 | $6.52 – $1,066.75 |
| Chandler Regional Medical Center | Chandler | $1,734.23 | $5.94 – $1,785.00 |