Cr-51 sodium chromate at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$202.52
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.
$788.00
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.
$157.60 with Aetna vs $591.00 with Provider Network of America — 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 | Medicare Advantage | $157.60 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $200.15 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $236.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $275.80 | ↑ +36% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $315.20 | ↑ +56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $340.52 | ↑ +68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $340.52 | ↑ +68% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $354.60 | ↑ +75% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $354.60 | ↑ +75% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $358.46 | ↑ +77% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $358.46 | ↑ +77% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $358.46 | ↑ +77% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $358.46 | ↑ +77% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $358.46 | ↑ +77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $363.23 | ↑ +79% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $381.38 | ↑ +88% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $394.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $394.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $394.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $415.28 | ↑ +105% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $425.52 | ↑ +110% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $425.52 | ↑ +110% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $454.03 | ↑ +124% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $454.03 | ↑ +124% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $454.03 | ↑ +124% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $527.16 | ↑ +160% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $551.60 | ↑ +172% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $585.73 | ↑ +189% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $591.00 | ↑ +192% |
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Cr-51 sodium chromate at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $505.14 | $132.48 – $1,058.25 |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center | Phoenix | $158.80 | $158.80 – $595.50 |
| Banner Gateway Medical Center | Gilbert | $241.03 | $166.80 – $625.50 |
| Banner Thunderbird Medical Center | Glendale | $191.16 | $72.99 – $607.50 |