Drug of abuse screen urine at Banner Estrella Medical Center
9201 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1275566200
$10.11
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.
$64.00
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.
$12.60 with Aetna vs $57.76 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $12.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $13.23 | ↑ +31% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $13.23 | ↑ +31% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $13.86 | ↑ +37% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $13.86 | ↑ +37% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $17.01 | ↑ +68% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $17.14 | ↑ +70% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $17.64 | ↑ +74% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $18.65 | ↑ +84% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $18.90 | ↑ +87% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $20.79 | ↑ +106% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $21.50 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $22.11 | ↑ +119% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $22.40 | ↑ +122% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $23.31 | ↑ +131% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $24.57 | ↑ +143% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $25.77 | ↑ +155% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $28.35 | ↑ +180% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $28.80 | ↑ +185% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $28.80 | ↑ +185% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $33.73 | ↑ +234% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $34.56 | ↑ +242% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $42.31 | ↑ +318% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $43.32 | ↑ +328% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $43.32 | ↑ +328% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $44.80 | ↑ +343% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $44.96 | ↑ +345% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $46.21 | ↑ +357% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $48.00 | ↑ +375% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $48.52 | ↑ +380% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $52.89 | ↑ +423% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $57.76 | ↑ +471% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $57.76 | ↑ +471% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $57.76 | ↑ +471% |
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Drug of abuse screen urine at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $10.24 | $12.60 – $48.00 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center | Phoenix | $22.16 | $10.07 – $42.93 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $12.55 | $7.14 – $39.27 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $10.37 | $12.60 – $51.20 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $9.98 | $12.60 – $51.20 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $8.13 | $12.60 – $48.00 |
| Banner Behavioral Health Hospital | Scottsdale | $31.64 | $12.60 – $37.80 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $9.66 | $12.60 – $51.20 |