Ghs urine, porphyrins quant at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
350 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1982733655
$34.77
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.
$91.00
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.
$6.18 with United vs $88.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $6.18 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $8.83 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.83 | ↓ -75% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumCare | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicare|All Other Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicare|Dual Complete | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $14.71 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.08 | ↓ -57% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumHealth | $16.18 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|DignityHealthEmployee | $16.72 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Exchange | $30.59 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus SureFit | $32.70 | ↓ -6% |
| Optum | Commercial|OptumHealth | $41.36 | ↑ +19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.02 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $46.29 | ↑ +33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LifeSource | $48.40 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $50.70 | ↑ +46% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $50.70 | ↑ +46% |
| Other | Commercial|NTN | $52.80 | ↑ +52% |
| LifeTrac | Commercial|All Plans | $57.20 | ↑ +65% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Interlink | $61.60 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $61.60 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.60 | ↑ +94% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $69.52 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Workers Comp | $88.00 | ↑ +153% |
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Ghs urine, porphyrins quant at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $9.92 | $14.71 – $46.50 |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center | Phoenix | $9.80 | $14.71 – $46.50 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $20.84 | $8.82 – $71.57 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $14.48 | $8.24 – $45.31 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $10.04 | $14.71 – $49.60 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $9.67 | $14.71 – $49.60 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $7.87 | $14.71 – $46.50 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $9.36 | $14.71 – $49.60 |