Contrast x-ray of brain at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$152.32
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.
$544.00
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.
$182.78 with Aetna vs $1,863.61 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $182.78 | ↑ +20% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $190.40 | ↑ +25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $244.80 | ↑ +61% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $244.80 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $251.33 | ↑ +65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $266.89 | ↑ +75% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $266.89 | ↑ +75% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $266.89 | ↑ +75% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $266.89 | ↑ +75% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $266.89 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $267.10 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $286.69 | ↑ +88% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $293.76 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $313.89 | ↑ +106% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $357.41 | ↑ +135% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $373.73 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $380.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $380.80 | ↑ +150% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $399.67 | ↑ +162% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $399.67 | ↑ +162% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $406.17 | ↑ +167% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $406.17 | ↑ +167% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $408.00 | ↑ +168% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $418.70 | ↑ +175% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $418.70 | ↑ +175% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $433.25 | ↑ +184% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $454.91 | ↑ +199% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $513.86 | ↑ +237% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $517.67 | ↑ +240% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $532.90 | ↑ +250% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $541.56 | ↑ +256% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $541.56 | ↑ +256% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $541.56 | ↑ +256% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $563.35 | ↑ +270% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $570.96 | ↑ +275% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $628.06 | ↑ +312% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $1,580.51 | ↑ +938% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $1,722.34 | ↑ +1031% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,863.61 | ↑ +1123% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Contrast x-ray of brain at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $156.67 | $182.78 – $628.06 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $225.76 | $182.78 – $628.06 |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center | Phoenix | $141.98 | $182.78 – $628.06 |
| Banner Gateway Medical Center | Gilbert | $161.57 | $182.78 – $628.06 |
| Banner Thunderbird Medical Center | Glendale | $139.26 | $72.99 – $628.06 |