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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at Banner Desert Medical Center
1400 South Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1720011810
$1,201.48
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.
$4,291.00
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.
$946.81 with Mercy Care vs $6,611.33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $946.81 | ↓ -21% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $946.81 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $946.81 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $946.81 | ↓ -21% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $946.81 | ↓ -21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,391.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $1,441.78 | ↑ +20% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $1,460.98 | ↑ +22% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $1,460.98 | ↑ +22% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $1,501.85 | ↑ +25% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,530.55 | ↑ +27% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $1,530.55 | ↑ +27% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $1,878.40 | ↑ +56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $1,889.67 | ↑ +57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $1,889.67 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $1,892.32 | ↑ +57% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $1,930.95 | ↑ +61% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $1,930.95 | ↑ +61% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $1,947.97 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $1,982.44 | ↑ +65% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $2,015.65 | ↑ +68% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $2,059.29 | ↑ +71% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $2,087.11 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $2,106.88 | ↑ +75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $2,116.42 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $2,261.36 | ↑ +88% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $2,295.83 | ↑ +91% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $2,317.14 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $2,475.91 | ↑ +106% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $2,519.56 | ↑ +110% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $2,519.56 | ↑ +110% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $2,519.56 | ↑ +110% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $2,819.19 | ↑ +135% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $2,947.92 | ↑ +145% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $3,003.70 | ↑ +150% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $3,218.25 | ↑ +168% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $5,608.74 | ↑ +367% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $6,112.03 | ↑ +409% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $6,611.33 | ↑ +450% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $1,347.37 | $946.81 – $3,218.25 |
| Banner Heart Hospital | Mesa | $574.99 | $946.81 – $3,218.25 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $1,703.53 | $735.17 – $3,218.25 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $1,154.64 | $615.27 – $3,396.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $687.69 | $615.27 – $3,396.00 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $909.69 | $946.81 – $3,432.80 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $845.33 | $615.27 – $3,218.25 |
| Banner Del Webb Medical Center | Sun City West | $909.69 | $735.17 – $3,432.80 |