Bacterial meningitis antigen at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$19.31
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.
$74.00
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.
$11.54 with Wellpoint vs $52.84 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 | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $11.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $12.12 | ↓ -37% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $12.12 | ↓ -37% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $12.69 | ↓ -34% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $12.69 | ↓ -34% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $15.58 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $15.69 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $16.16 | ↓ -16% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $17.08 | ↓ -12% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $17.31 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $17.81 | ↓ -8% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $18.55 | ↓ -4% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $19.04 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $20.25 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $21.34 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $22.50 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $23.59 | ↑ +22% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $23.85 | ↑ +24% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $23.85 | ↑ +24% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $25.96 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $27.93 | ↑ +45% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $28.62 | ↑ +48% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $37.10 | ↑ +92% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $38.75 | ↑ +101% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $39.63 | ↑ +105% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $39.63 | ↑ +105% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $39.75 | ↑ +106% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $41.17 | ↑ +113% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $42.28 | ↑ +119% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $44.39 | ↑ +130% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $48.44 | ↑ +151% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $52.84 | ↑ +174% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $52.84 | ↑ +174% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $52.84 | ↑ +174% |
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Bacterial meningitis antigen at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $12.43 | $11.54 – $39.75 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $13.69 | $11.54 – $39.75 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $38.54 | $6.92 – $127.46 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $49.70 | $11.54 – $155.54 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $14.06 | $11.54 – $39.75 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $15.91 | $11.54 – $42.40 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $10.06 | $11.54 – $42.40 |
| Banner Behavioral Health Hospital | Scottsdale | $34.57 | $11.54 – $41.30 |