Assay of urine sulfate at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$10.80
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.
$72.00
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.
$5.49 with Wellpoint vs $25.16 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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| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $5.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $5.76 | ↓ -47% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $5.76 | ↓ -47% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $5.95 | ↓ -45% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.04 | ↓ -44% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $6.04 | ↓ -44% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $7.41 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $7.47 | ↓ -31% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $7.65 | ↓ -29% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $7.65 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $7.69 | ↓ -29% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $8.13 | ↓ -25% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $8.23 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $8.96 | ↓ -17% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $9.06 | ↓ -16% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $9.18 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $9.64 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $10.16 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $10.71 | ↓ -1% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $11.23 | ↑ +4% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $11.90 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $12.36 | ↑ +14% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $12.75 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $18.44 | ↑ +71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $18.87 | ↑ +75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $18.87 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $19.59 | ↑ +81% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $20.13 | ↑ +86% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $21.14 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $23.05 | ↑ +113% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $25.16 | ↑ +133% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $25.16 | ↑ +133% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $25.16 | ↑ +133% |
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Assay of urine sulfate at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $9.14 | $5.49 – $12.75 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $6.05 | $5.49 – $12.75 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $5.41 | $3.08 – $16.91 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $11.52 | $5.49 – $12.75 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $11.66 | $5.49 – $13.60 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $11.23 | $5.49 – $13.60 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $10.87 | $5.49 – $13.60 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $8.14 | $5.49 – $12.75 |