Cutter lead at Banner Baywood Medical Center

6644 East Baywood Avenue, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1194758284

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 2, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$8,420.39

Cash price

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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.

$36,139.00

Gross charge

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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.

$226.40 with Aetna vs $1,681.24 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicare Advantage $226.40 ↓ -97%
Mercy Care Mercy Medicaid $234.32 ↓ -97%
Arizona Physicians IPA Medicaid $234.32 ↓ -97%
Health Net Medicaid $234.32 ↓ -97%
Health Choice Arizona, Inc. Medicaid $234.32 ↓ -97%
Banner University Health Plan AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS $234.32 ↓ -97%
Aetna Qualified Health Plan $287.53 ↓ -97%
Health Choice Arizona, Inc. Medicare Advantage $339.60 ↓ -96%
Aetna Banner Employee Plans $380.35 ↓ -95%
Hospice of the Valley Medicare $396.20 ↓ -95%
Arizona Priority Care Medicare Advantage $452.80 ↓ -95%
Plotkin Health Plotkin Health $509.40 ↓ -94%
National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) NHSI VUMI $509.40 ↓ -94%
Aetna Joint Venture $522.98 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare UHC Doctor's Plan $549.02 ↓ -93%
Aetna Designated Group $555.81 ↓ -93%
Oscar Health Plan Commercial $566.00 ↓ -93%
Health Net Medicare $566.00 ↓ -93%
Health Choice Arizona, Inc. ACA Health Plan $566.00 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare UHC Core $573.92 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medical Rental $596.56 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Commercial $604.49 ↓ -93%
Quiktrip Corporation Commercial $611.28 ↓ -93%
Health Net Commerical Exchange Product $611.28 ↓ -93%
Aetna Broad Network $653.16 ↓ -92%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. LocalFlex $743.72 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. Commercial $777.68 ↓ -91%
Arizona Medical Network Commercial $792.40 ↓ -91%
Provider Network of America Commercial $849.00 ↓ -90%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona BXBSAZ Neighborhood $1,260.93 ↓ -85%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN $1,344.99 ↓ -84%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona BXBSAZ Alliance CHS $1,412.23 ↓ -83%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Commercial $1,681.24 ↓ -80%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred $1,681.24 ↓ -80%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona BCBSAZ Workers Comp $1,681.24 ↓ -80%

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