#creutz-prot.,western blot at Banner Baywood Medical Center
6644 East Baywood Avenue, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1194758284
$19.68
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.
$155.00
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.
$29.21 with Care 1st vs $122.62 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $29.21 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $29.57 | ↑ +50% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $30.67 | ↑ +56% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $30.67 | ↑ +56% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $30.80 | ↑ +57% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $32.13 | ↑ +63% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $32.13 | ↑ +63% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $39.60 | ↑ +101% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $39.60 | ↑ +101% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $39.73 | ↑ +102% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $40.89 | ↑ +108% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $43.23 | ↑ +120% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $43.81 | ↑ +123% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $46.38 | ↑ +136% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $47.52 | ↑ +141% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $48.20 | ↑ +145% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $51.27 | ↑ +161% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $54.03 | ↑ +175% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $56.97 | ↑ +189% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $58.17 | ↑ +196% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $59.73 | ↑ +204% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $61.60 | ↑ +213% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $62.05 | ↑ +215% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $65.15 | ↑ +231% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $65.73 | ↑ +234% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $66.00 | ↑ +235% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $77.56 | ↑ +294% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $77.56 | ↑ +294% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $77.56 | ↑ +294% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $98.09 | ↑ +398% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $104.22 | ↑ +430% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $122.62 | ↑ +523% |
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#creutz-prot.,western blot at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Desert Medical Center | Mesa | $23.25 | $29.21 – $66.00 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $13.02 | $29.21 – $66.00 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $211.40 | $17.52 – $142.14 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $118.64 | $16.36 – $89.97 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $24.80 | $22.63 – $66.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $25.11 | $29.21 – $70.40 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $24.18 | $29.21 – $70.40 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $23.40 | $29.21 – $70.40 |