Culture screening strep group a at Banner Heart Hospital
6750 E Baywood Avenue, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1215961248
$21.48
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.
$131.00
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.
$6.63 with Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. vs $27.83 with Aetna — 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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| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $6.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $6.72 | ↓ -69% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $6.96 | ↓ -68% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $6.96 | ↓ -68% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $7.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $7.29 | ↓ -66% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $7.29 | ↓ -66% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $9.00 | ↓ -58% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $9.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $9.02 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $9.28 | ↓ -57% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $9.81 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $9.95 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $10.54 | ↓ -51% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $10.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $10.94 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $11.64 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $12.27 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $12.93 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $13.56 | ↓ -37% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $14.00 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $14.93 | ↓ -30% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $15.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $19.12 | ↓ -11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $20.39 | ↓ -5% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $21.41 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $22.26 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $23.66 | ↑ +10% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $25.49 | ↑ +19% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $25.49 | ↑ +19% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $25.49 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $27.83 | ↑ +30% |
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Culture screening strep group a at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $29.21 | $6.63 – $15.00 |
| Banner Desert Medical Center | Mesa | $31.96 | $6.63 – $15.00 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $58.05 | $3.97 – $137.26 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $82.17 | $3.72 – $20.43 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $28.95 | $6.63 – $15.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $30.65 | $6.63 – $16.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $21.88 | $6.63 – $16.00 |
| Banner Behavioral Health Hospital | Scottsdale | $11.72 | $6.63 – $14.00 |