Crystal identification light microscopy at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$14.33
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.
$72.00
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.
$7.33 with Wellpoint vs $77.56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -49% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $7.70 | ↓ -46% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $7.70 | ↓ -46% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $8.06 | ↓ -44% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $9.90 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $9.97 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $10.26 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $10.85 | ↓ -24% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $10.99 | ↓ -23% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $12.09 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $12.85 | ↓ -10% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $13.56 | ↓ -5% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $14.28 | ↓ -0% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $14.99 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $16.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $24.19 | ↑ +69% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $24.61 | ↑ +72% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $25.20 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $26.15 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $30.77 | ↑ +115% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $32.40 | ↑ +126% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $32.40 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $37.94 | ↑ +165% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $38.88 | ↑ +171% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $50.40 | ↑ +252% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $54.00 | ↑ +277% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $58.17 | ↑ +306% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $58.17 | ↑ +306% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $62.05 | ↑ +333% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $65.15 | ↑ +355% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $77.56 | ↑ +441% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $77.56 | ↑ +441% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $77.56 | ↑ +441% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Crystal identification light microscopy at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $41.83 | $7.33 – $54.00 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $5.62 | $7.33 – $54.00 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $43.72 | $4.39 – $144.61 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $7.14 | $4.06 – $22.33 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $12.38 | $7.33 – $54.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $12.71 | $7.33 – $49.60 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $10.97 | $7.33 – $49.60 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $11.59 | $7.33 – $57.60 |