Microsatellite instability at Banner Heart Hospital
6750 E Baywood Avenue, Mesa, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1215961248
$70.08
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.
$1,046.00
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.
$348.56 with Banner Health vs $1,517.23 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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| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $348.56 | ↑ +397% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $351.46 | ↑ +402% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $365.99 | ↑ +422% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $365.99 | ↑ +422% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $366.10 | ↑ +422% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $383.42 | ↑ +447% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $383.42 | ↑ +447% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $470.70 | ↑ +572% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $470.70 | ↑ +572% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $474.04 | ↑ +576% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $487.98 | ↑ +596% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $515.87 | ↑ +636% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $522.84 | ↑ +646% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $551.24 | ↑ +687% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $564.84 | ↑ +706% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $575.12 | ↑ +721% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $611.71 | ↑ +773% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $644.69 | ↑ +820% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $679.68 | ↑ +870% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $712.77 | ↑ +917% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $732.20 | ↑ +945% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $784.26 | ↑ +1019% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $784.50 | ↑ +1019% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $1,137.92 | ↑ +1524% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $1,170.46 | ↑ +1570% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $1,213.79 | ↑ +1632% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $1,243.66 | ↑ +1675% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $1,274.47 | ↑ +1719% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $1,463.25 | ↑ +1988% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $1,517.23 | ↑ +2065% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $1,517.23 | ↑ +2065% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $1,517.23 | ↑ +2065% |
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Microsatellite instability at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $228.03 | $348.56 – $784.50 |
| Banner Desert Medical Center | Mesa | $460.24 | $348.56 – $784.50 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $342.99 | $195.20 – $1,073.57 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $291.83 | $348.56 – $784.50 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $347.49 | $348.56 – $1,144.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $244.53 | $348.56 – $1,144.00 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $237.44 | $348.56 – $836.80 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $165.27 | $348.56 – $784.50 |