Albumin body fluid quantitative each specimen at Banner Baywood Medical Center
6644 East Baywood Avenue, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1194758284
$7.37
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.
$58.00
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.
$7.78 with Care 1st vs $35.63 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 | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $7.78 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $8.06 | ↑ +9% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $8.17 | ↑ +11% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $8.17 | ↑ +11% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $8.40 | ↑ +14% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.56 | ↑ +16% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $8.56 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $10.58 | ↑ +44% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $10.80 | ↑ +47% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $10.80 | ↑ +47% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $10.89 | ↑ +48% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $11.51 | ↑ +56% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $11.67 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $12.65 | ↑ +72% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $12.84 | ↑ +74% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $12.96 | ↑ +76% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $13.66 | ↑ +85% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $14.39 | ↑ +95% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $15.18 | ↑ +106% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $15.92 | ↑ +116% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $16.80 | ↑ +128% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $17.50 | ↑ +137% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $18.00 | ↑ +144% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $26.13 | ↑ +255% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $26.72 | ↑ +263% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $27.76 | ↑ +277% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $28.50 | ↑ +287% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $29.93 | ↑ +306% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $32.66 | ↑ +343% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $35.63 | ↑ +383% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $35.63 | ↑ +383% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $35.63 | ↑ +383% |
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Albumin body fluid quantitative each specimen at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Desert Medical Center | Mesa | $8.70 | $7.78 – $18.00 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $4.87 | $7.78 – $18.00 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $28.16 | $4.66 – $37.86 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $22.39 | $4.36 – $23.97 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $9.28 | $7.78 – $18.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $9.40 | $7.78 – $19.20 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $9.05 | $7.78 – $19.20 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $8.76 | $7.78 – $19.20 |