Cell count body fluid at Banner Estrella Medical Center
9201 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1275566200
$3.89
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.
$15.00
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.
$4.72 with Wellpoint vs $21.63 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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| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $4.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $4.96 | ↑ +28% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $4.96 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $5.04 | ↑ +30% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $5.19 | ↑ +33% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $5.19 | ↑ +33% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $5.25 | ↑ +35% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $6.37 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $6.42 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $6.61 | ↑ +70% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $6.75 | ↑ +74% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $6.75 | ↑ +74% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $6.99 | ↑ +80% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $7.08 | ↑ +82% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $7.79 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $7.91 | ↑ +103% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $8.10 | ↑ +108% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $8.29 | ↑ +113% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $8.73 | ↑ +124% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $9.21 | ↑ +137% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $9.65 | ↑ +148% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $10.50 | ↑ +170% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $10.62 | ↑ +173% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $11.25 | ↑ +189% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $15.85 | ↑ +307% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $16.22 | ↑ +317% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $16.22 | ↑ +317% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $16.84 | ↑ +333% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $17.30 | ↑ +345% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $18.17 | ↑ +367% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $19.81 | ↑ +409% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $21.63 | ↑ +456% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $21.63 | ↑ +456% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $21.63 | ↑ +456% |
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Cell count body fluid at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $47.41 | $2.83 – $169.12 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center | Phoenix | $67.24 | $1.98 – $139.04 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $49.45 | $4.72 – $154.77 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $8.71 | $4.72 – $11.25 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $4.30 | $4.72 – $11.25 |
| Banner Ironwood Medical Center | San Tan Valley | $3.60 | $4.72 – $11.25 |
| Banner Ocotillo Medical Center | Chandler | $5.06 | $4.72 – $11.25 |
| Banner Payson Medical Center | Payson | $6.87 | $4.72 – $13.50 |