Sedimentation rate erythrocyte automated at Banner Baywood Medical Center
6644 East Baywood Avenue, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1194758284
$4.05
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.
$9.00
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.
$2.70 with Care 1st vs $12.36 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 | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $2.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $2.83 | ↓ -30% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $2.83 | ↓ -30% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $2.97 | ↓ -27% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $2.97 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $3.02 | ↓ -25% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $3.15 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $3.67 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $3.78 | ↓ -7% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $4.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $4.05 | ↑ +0% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $4.05 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $4.05 | ↑ +0% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $4.46 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $4.74 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $4.75 | ↑ +17% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $4.86 | ↑ +20% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $4.99 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $5.28 | ↑ +30% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $5.52 | ↑ +36% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $6.08 | ↑ +50% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $6.30 | ↑ +56% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $6.75 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $9.07 | ↑ +124% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $9.27 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $9.63 | ↑ +138% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $9.89 | ↑ +144% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $10.38 | ↑ +156% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $11.33 | ↑ +180% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $12.36 | ↑ +205% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $12.36 | ↑ +205% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $12.36 | ↑ +205% |
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Sedimentation rate erythrocyte automated at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $39.52 | $1.62 – $130.72 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $53.14 | $2.70 – $166.32 |
| Banner Behavioral Health Hospital | Scottsdale | $5.27 | $2.70 – $6.30 |
| Banner Ocotillo Medical Center | Chandler | $2.49 | $2.70 – $6.75 |
| Banner Payson Medical Center | Payson | $4.45 | $2.70 – $8.10 |
| Banner Page Hospital | Page | $4.93 | $2.70 – $8.55 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $36.64 | $1.62 – $130.72 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center | Phoenix | $71.44 | $1.13 – $147.73 |