Cholecystostomy complete w/supervision & interpretation at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
350 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1982733655
$4,927.80
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.
$12,900.00
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 Health Choice vs $10,457.84 with BCBS - AZ — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $343.67 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $343.67 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|DignityHealthEmployee | $2,451.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Exchange | $3,503.00 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Medicare|Dual Complete | $3,670.50 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus SureFit | $3,750.00 | ↓ -24% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| United | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumCare | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $3,761.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Devoted Health | Medicare|All Plans | $3,874.18 | ↓ -21% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumHealth | $4,137.47 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,934.00 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $5,292.14 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $5,292.14 | ↑ +7% |
| Optum | Commercial|OptumHealth | $6,063.00 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,056.19 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LifeSource | $7,095.00 | ↑ +44% |
| Other | Commercial|NTN | $7,740.00 | ↑ +57% |
| LifeTrac | Commercial|All Plans | $8,385.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Interlink | $9,030.00 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9,030.00 | ↑ +83% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $10,191.00 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Workers Comp | $10,457.84 | ↑ +112% |
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Cholecystostomy complete w/supervision & interpretation at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $1,800.38 | $936.00 – $6,206.21 |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center | Phoenix | $1,946.22 | $936.00 – $6,206.21 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | not published | $343.67 – $3,874.19 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $2,075.27 | $808.00 – $6,206.21 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $3,012.86 | $808.00 – $6,206.21 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $1,719.92 | $936.00 – $6,206.21 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $1,453.38 | $936.00 – $6,206.21 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $1,393.03 | $936.00 – $5,642.01 |