Darbepoetin alfa, esrd use at Banner Heart Hospital
6750 E Baywood Avenue, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1215961248
$0.34
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.
$22.40
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.
$2.34 with Health Choice Arizona, Inc. vs $16.92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $2.34 | ↑ +588% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $2.34 | ↑ +588% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $2.34 | ↑ +588% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $2.34 | ↑ +588% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $2.34 | ↑ +588% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $3.00 | ↑ +782% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $3.15 | ↑ +826% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $3.15 | ↑ +826% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $3.30 | ↑ +871% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $3.30 | ↑ +871% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $4.08 | ↑ +1100% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $4.20 | ↑ +1135% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $4.44 | ↑ +1206% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $4.46 | ↑ +1212% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $4.50 | ↑ +1224% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $4.52 | ↑ +1229% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $4.95 | ↑ +1356% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $4.95 | ↑ +1356% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $5.94 | ↑ +1647% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $5.94 | ↑ +1647% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $5.94 | ↑ +1647% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $6.69 | ↑ +1868% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $7.32 | ↑ +2053% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $7.84 | ↑ +2206% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $10.08 | ↑ +2865% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $10.08 | ↑ +2865% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $11.80 | ↑ +3371% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $12.10 | ↑ +3459% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $12.69 | ↑ +3632% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $13.54 | ↑ +3882% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $14.21 | ↑ +4079% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $15.68 | ↑ +4512% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $16.80 | ↑ +4841% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $16.92 | ↑ +4876% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $16.92 | ↑ +4876% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $16.92 | ↑ +4876% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Darbepoetin alfa, esrd use at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Del Webb Medical Center | Sun City West | $2.26 | $2.34 – $17.92 |