Lymph vessel x-ray arm/leg at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$660.80
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.
$2,360.00
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.
$392.67 with Mercy Care vs $3,262.91 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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| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $392.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $392.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $392.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $392.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $392.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $472.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $599.44 | ↓ -9% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $708.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $792.96 | ↑ +20% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $826.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $944.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $1,062.00 | ↑ +61% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $1,062.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $1,090.32 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $1,158.76 | ↑ +75% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $1,180.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $1,180.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $1,180.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $1,243.72 | ↑ +88% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $1,274.40 | ↑ +93% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $1,274.40 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $1,361.72 | ↑ +106% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $1,550.52 | ↑ +135% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $1,621.32 | ↑ +145% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $1,652.00 | ↑ +150% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $1,770.00 | ↑ +168% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $2,319.94 | ↑ +251% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $2,447.19 | ↑ +270% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $2,447.19 | ↑ +270% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $2,528.13 | ↑ +283% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $2,610.33 | ↑ +295% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $2,740.83 | ↑ +315% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,741.96 | ↑ +315% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $3,262.91 | ↑ +394% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $3,262.91 | ↑ +394% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $3,262.91 | ↑ +394% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Lymph vessel x-ray arm/leg at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $665.52 | $392.67 – $2,319.94 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $547.50 | $365.00 – $2,741.96 |
| Banner Thunderbird Medical Center | Glendale | $604.16 | $72.99 – $2,319.94 |