Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
350 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1982733655
$2,256.48
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.
$5,907.00
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.
$343.67 with United vs $4,666.53 with MultiPlan — 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 | Medicaid|All Plans | $343.67 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $343.67 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Medicare|Dual Complete | $371.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumCare | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicare|All Other Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $380.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Devoted Health | Medicare|All Plans | $392.06 | ↓ -83% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumHealth | $418.70 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $824.45 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $824.45 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $824.45 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|DignityHealthEmployee | $1,122.33 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,231.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus SureFit | $1,318.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $1,389.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,734.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,838.25 | ↓ -19% |
| Optum | Commercial|OptumHealth | $2,776.29 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,983.12 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,983.12 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,983.12 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LifeSource | $3,248.85 | ↑ +44% |
| Other | Commercial|NTN | $3,544.20 | ↑ +57% |
| LifeTrac | Commercial|All Plans | $3,839.55 | ↑ +70% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,898.62 | ↑ +73% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Interlink | $4,134.90 | ↑ +83% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,666.53 | ↑ +107% |
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Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $578.12 | $266.89 – $2,727.00 |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center | Phoenix | $647.21 | $266.89 – $2,727.00 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $1,436.06 | $343.67 – $5,123.41 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $1,489.78 | $343.67 – $4,663.12 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $754.74 | $266.89 – $3,354.40 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $561.86 | $266.89 – $3,354.40 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $603.58 | $266.89 – $2,727.00 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $599.94 | $266.89 – $2,908.80 |