#cf-97variants at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$1,180.08
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.
$2,682.00
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.
$556.60 with Wellpoint vs $2,889.22 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 | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $556.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $584.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $584.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $612.26 | ↓ -48% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $612.26 | ↓ -48% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $751.41 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $756.98 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $779.24 | ↓ -34% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $823.77 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $834.90 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $901.15 | ↓ -24% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $918.39 | ↓ -22% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $938.70 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $976.83 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $1,029.49 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $1,085.37 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $1,138.19 | ↓ -4% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $1,206.90 | ↑ +2% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $1,206.90 | ↑ +2% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,252.35 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $1,413.41 | ↑ +20% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $1,448.28 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $1,869.06 | ↑ +58% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $1,877.40 | ↑ +59% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $1,985.95 | ↑ +68% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $2,011.50 | ↑ +70% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $2,166.92 | ↑ +84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $2,166.92 | ↑ +84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $2,311.38 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $2,336.61 | ↑ +98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $2,426.93 | ↑ +106% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $2,889.22 | ↑ +145% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $2,889.22 | ↑ +145% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $2,889.22 | ↑ +145% |
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#cf-97variants at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $584.68 | $556.60 – $2,011.50 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $179.69 | $556.60 – $2,011.50 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $166.73 | $333.96 – $2,708.85 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $547.70 | $10.78 – $77.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $748.28 | $556.60 – $2,011.50 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $554.77 | $556.60 – $1,826.40 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $390.39 | $556.60 – $1,826.40 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $608.81 | $556.60 – $2,145.60 |