Echo transesophageal at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$577.22
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.
$2,356.00
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.
$471.20 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 | Medicare Advantage | $471.20 | ↓ -18% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $494.76 | ↓ -14% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $494.76 | ↓ -14% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $494.76 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $598.42 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $617.19 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $655.76 | ↑ +14% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $706.80 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $771.49 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $791.62 | ↑ +37% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $824.60 | ↑ +43% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $942.40 | ↑ +63% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $1,060.20 | ↑ +84% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $1,060.20 | ↑ +84% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $1,178.00 | ↑ +104% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $1,178.00 | ↑ +104% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $1,178.00 | ↑ +104% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $1,241.61 | ↑ +115% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $1,272.24 | ↑ +120% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $1,272.24 | ↑ +120% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $1,377.32 | ↑ +139% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $1,377.32 | ↑ +139% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $1,469.15 | ↑ +155% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $1,542.59 | ↑ +167% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $1,547.89 | ↑ +168% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $1,618.57 | ↑ +180% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $1,649.20 | ↑ +186% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $1,767.00 | ↑ +206% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $1,836.43 | ↑ +218% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $1,836.43 | ↑ +218% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $1,836.43 | ↑ +218% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $2,128.00 | ↑ +269% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $2,224.00 | ↑ +285% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,341.00 | ↑ +306% |
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Echo transesophageal at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $504.18 | $471.20 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $579.58 | $471.20 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $412.67 | $336.44 – $1,587.20 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $565.44 | $336.44 – $1,587.20 |
| Banner Ironwood Medical Center | San Tan Valley | $640.83 | $471.20 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center | Phoenix | $579.58 | $471.20 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner Gateway Medical Center | Gilbert | $664.39 | $471.20 – $2,128.00 |
| Banner Ocotillo Medical Center | Chandler | $579.58 | $471.20 – $2,128.00 |