Doppler echo complete at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$281.26
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.
$1,148.00
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.
$137.71 with Aetna vs $2,341.00 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 | Joint Venture | $137.71 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $146.32 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $172.14 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $229.60 | ↓ -18% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $241.08 | ↓ -14% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $241.08 | ↓ -14% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $241.08 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $291.59 | ↑ +4% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $344.40 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $369.00 | ↑ +31% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $369.00 | ↑ +31% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $385.73 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $393.60 | ↑ +40% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $401.80 | ↑ +43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $413.27 | ↑ +47% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $459.20 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $491.99 | ↑ +75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $491.99 | ↑ +75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $491.99 | ↑ +75% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $516.60 | ↑ +84% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $516.60 | ↑ +84% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $574.00 | ↑ +104% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $574.00 | ↑ +104% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $574.00 | ↑ +104% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $605.00 | ↑ +115% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $619.92 | ↑ +120% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $619.92 | ↑ +120% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $754.24 | ↑ +168% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $788.68 | ↑ +180% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $803.60 | ↑ +186% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $861.00 | ↑ +206% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $2,128.00 | ↑ +657% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $2,224.00 | ↑ +691% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,341.00 | ↑ +732% |
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Doppler echo complete at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $245.67 | $137.71 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $203.20 | $137.71 – $2,128.00 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $235.64 | $53.28 – $779.42 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $257.32 | $53.28 – $805.42 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $282.41 | $137.71 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $161.41 | $75.07 – $1,013.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $221.16 | $75.07 – $1,013.00 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $223.86 | $137.71 – $2,128.00 |