Culture fungi other (except blood) at Banner Baywood Medical Center
6644 East Baywood Avenue, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1194758284
$17.39
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.
$78.00
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.
$8.41 with Care 1st vs $45.00 with Provider Network of America — 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 | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $8.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $8.83 | ↓ -49% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $8.83 | ↓ -49% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $9.25 | ↓ -47% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $9.25 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $11.44 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $11.77 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $12.45 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $12.62 | ↓ -27% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $13.88 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $14.77 | ↓ -15% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $15.56 | ↓ -11% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $16.41 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $17.20 | ↓ -1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $18.93 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $20.16 | ↑ +16% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $21.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $27.00 | ↑ +55% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $27.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $28.24 | ↑ +62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $28.90 | ↑ +66% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $30.01 | ↑ +73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $30.82 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $31.62 | ↑ +82% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $32.36 | ↑ +86% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $32.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $35.31 | ↑ +103% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $38.53 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $38.53 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $38.53 | ↑ +122% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $42.00 | ↑ +142% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $45.00 | ↑ +159% |
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Culture fungi other (except blood) at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Desert Medical Center | Mesa | $19.03 | $8.41 – $45.00 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $12.79 | $8.41 – $45.00 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $69.41 | $5.04 – $229.58 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $154.74 | $4.71 – $25.91 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $17.24 | $8.41 – $45.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $18.25 | $8.41 – $48.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $13.03 | $8.41 – $48.00 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $16.02 | $8.41 – $48.00 |