Culture body fluid at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$66.61
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.
$273.00
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.
$8.62 with Wellpoint vs $39.54 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 | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $8.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -87% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $9.05 | ↓ -86% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $9.05 | ↓ -86% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $9.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $9.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $9.48 | ↓ -86% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $11.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $11.70 | ↓ -82% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $11.70 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $11.72 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $12.07 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $12.76 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $12.93 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $13.70 | ↓ -79% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $14.04 | ↓ -79% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $14.22 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $15.12 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $15.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $16.80 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $17.63 | ↓ -74% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $18.20 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $19.39 | ↓ -71% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $19.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $28.95 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $29.65 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $29.65 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $30.76 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $31.63 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $33.21 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $36.19 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $39.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $39.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $39.54 | ↓ -41% |
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Culture body fluid at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $60.88 | $8.62 – $19.50 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $44.77 | $8.62 – $19.50 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $113.62 | $5.17 – $232.03 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $185.98 | $4.76 – $26.18 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $60.33 | $8.62 – $19.50 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $31.59 | $8.62 – $20.80 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $22.55 | $8.62 – $20.80 |
| Banner Behavioral Health Hospital | Scottsdale | $159.95 | $8.62 – $18.20 |