Red blood cells leukocytes reduced irradiated each unit at Banner Estrella Medical Center
9201 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1275566200
$94.15
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.
$350.00
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.
$117.60 with Aetna vs $517.09 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 | Banner Employee Plans | $117.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $122.50 | ↑ +30% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $157.50 | ↑ +67% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $157.50 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $161.70 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $171.85 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $184.45 | ↑ +96% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $188.90 | ↑ +101% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $188.90 | ↑ +101% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $188.90 | ↑ +101% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $188.90 | ↑ +101% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $188.90 | ↑ +101% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $189.00 | ↑ +101% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $201.95 | ↑ +114% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $229.95 | ↑ +144% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $240.45 | ↑ +155% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $245.00 | ↑ +160% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $262.50 | ↑ +179% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $272.64 | ↑ +190% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $286.27 | ↑ +204% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $286.27 | ↑ +204% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $299.90 | ↑ +219% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $299.90 | ↑ +219% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $325.00 | ↑ +245% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $339.00 | ↑ +260% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $357.00 | ↑ +279% |
| NaphCare | Federal Prison System | $368.06 | ↑ +291% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $370.79 | ↑ +294% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $381.70 | ↑ +305% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ MaricopaFocus | $387.82 | ↑ +312% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $387.82 | ↑ +312% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $403.51 | ↑ +329% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $408.96 | ↑ +334% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $413.67 | ↑ +339% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $434.35 | ↑ +361% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $449.86 | ↑ +378% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $517.09 | ↑ +449% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $517.09 | ↑ +449% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $517.09 | ↑ +449% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Red blood cells leukocytes reduced irradiated each unit at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $89.60 | $117.60 – $449.86 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $289.23 | $193.62 – $1,031.88 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center | Phoenix | $436.63 | $193.62 – $902.97 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $251.66 | $143.22 – $787.71 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $97.65 | $113.75 – $449.86 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $59.15 | $113.75 – $449.86 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $97.30 | $117.60 – $449.86 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $39.55 | $117.60 – $449.86 |