Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
350 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1982733655
$147.84
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.
$387.00
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.
$36.86 with United vs $181.75 with Aetna — 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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| United | Commercial|DignityHealthEmployee | $36.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $43.52 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $43.52 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $53.08 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Medicare|Dual Complete | $55.20 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $56.26 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $56.26 | ↓ -62% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumCare | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Medicare|All Other Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $56.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Devoted Health | Medicare|All Plans | $58.27 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Exchange | $58.89 | ↓ -60% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumHealth | $62.23 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus SureFit | $63.16 | ↓ -57% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $73.72 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $83.11 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $90.24 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $90.24 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $90.24 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Workers Comp | $90.24 | ↓ -39% |
| Optum | Commercial|OptumHealth | $91.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LifeSource | $106.70 | ↓ -28% |
| Other | Commercial|NTN | $116.40 | ↓ -21% |
| LifeTrac | Commercial|All Plans | $126.10 | ↓ -15% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $128.04 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $130.95 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $130.95 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $130.95 | ↓ -11% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Interlink | $135.80 | ↓ -8% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $153.26 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $181.75 | ↑ +23% |
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Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $215.04 | $43.52 – $383.99 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $231.00 | $43.52 – $361.90 |
| Yavapai Regional Medical Center (East) | Prescott | $304.97 | $43.52 – $349.35 |
| Arizona General Hospital Mesa | Mesa | $231.94 | $43.52 – $383.99 |
| Chandler Regional Medical Center | Chandler | $251.66 | $43.52 – $394.80 |