Auditory function + 15 min at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$109.96
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.
$149.00
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.
$17.90 with Mercy Care vs $134.51 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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| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $17.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $17.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $17.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $17.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $17.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $29.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $37.85 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $44.70 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $50.06 | ↓ -54% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $52.15 | ↓ -53% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $59.60 | ↓ -46% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $67.05 | ↓ -39% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $67.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $68.84 | ↓ -37% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $72.27 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $73.16 | ↓ -33% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $74.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $74.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $74.50 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $75.54 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $78.52 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $79.57 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $80.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $80.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $85.97 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $97.89 | ↓ -11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $100.88 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $100.88 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $102.36 | ↓ -7% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $104.30 | ↓ -5% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $107.61 | ↓ -2% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $111.75 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $112.99 | ↑ +3% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $134.51 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $134.51 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $134.51 | ↑ +22% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Auditory function + 15 min at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $19.68 | $11.20 – $74.95 |
| Chandler Regional Medical Center | Chandler | $21.44 | $11.20 – $67.20 |