Platelet automated at Banner Estrella Medical Center
9201 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1275566200
$3.16
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.
$14.00
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.
$4.48 with Aetna vs $20.56 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 | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $4.48 | ↑ +42% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $4.70 | ↑ +49% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $4.70 | ↑ +49% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $4.70 | ↑ +49% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $4.90 | ↑ +55% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $4.93 | ↑ +56% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $4.93 | ↑ +56% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $6.05 | ↑ +91% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $6.09 | ↑ +93% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $6.27 | ↑ +98% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $6.30 | ↑ +99% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $6.30 | ↑ +99% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $6.63 | ↑ +110% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $6.72 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $7.38 | ↑ +134% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $7.39 | ↑ +134% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $7.56 | ↑ +139% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $7.86 | ↑ +149% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $8.28 | ↑ +162% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $8.73 | ↑ +176% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $9.17 | ↑ +190% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $9.80 | ↑ +210% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $10.08 | ↑ +219% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $10.50 | ↑ +232% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $15.04 | ↑ +376% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $15.42 | ↑ +388% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $15.42 | ↑ +388% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $15.98 | ↑ +406% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $16.45 | ↑ +421% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $17.27 | ↑ +447% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $18.81 | ↑ +495% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $20.56 | ↑ +551% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $20.56 | ↑ +551% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $20.56 | ↑ +551% |
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Platelet automated at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $2.56 | $4.48 – $10.50 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $30.46 | $2.68 – $108.67 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center | Phoenix | $30.56 | $1.88 – $63.20 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $58.06 | $4.48 – $174.79 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $6.30 | $4.48 – $10.50 |
| Banner Behavioral Health Hospital | Scottsdale | $8.20 | $4.48 – $9.80 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $2.59 | $4.48 – $11.20 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $2.97 | $4.48 – $10.50 |