Cutter lead at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$5,601.54
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.
$36,139.00
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.
$226.40 with Aetna vs $1,681.24 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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| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $226.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $237.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $237.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $237.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $237.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $237.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $287.53 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $339.60 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $380.35 | ↓ -93% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $396.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $452.80 | ↓ -92% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $509.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $509.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $522.98 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $549.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $555.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $566.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $566.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $566.00 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $573.92 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $596.56 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $604.49 | ↓ -89% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $611.28 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $611.28 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $653.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $743.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $777.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $792.40 | ↓ -86% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $849.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $1,260.93 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $1,260.93 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $1,344.99 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $1,412.23 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $1,681.24 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $1,681.24 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $1,681.24 | ↓ -70% |
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Cutter lead at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $8,420.39 | $226.40 – $1,260.93 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $5,999.07 | $201.50 – $1,057.38 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $6,652.34 | $40.18 – $287.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $12,148.79 | $226.40 – $849.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $11,470.72 | $226.40 – $1,075.77 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $11,922.77 | $226.40 – $905.60 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $5,637.68 | $226.40 – $962.81 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $11,244.69 | $226.40 – $849.00 |