Pegaspargase injection at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
350 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1982733655
$30,009.92
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.
$78,560.00
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.
$14,926.40 with United vs $78,560.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|DignityHealthEmployee | $14,926.40 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $21,140.80 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $27,070.53 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28,694.76 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $28,694.76 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Medicare|All Other Plans | $28,852.32 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Medicare|Dual Complete | $29,563.30 | ↓ -1% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumCare | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $30,294.93 | ↑ +1% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $32,995.20 | ↑ +10% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumHealth | $33,324.42 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Exchange | $33,567.46 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus SureFit | $36,003.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Optum | Commercial|OptumHealth | $36,923.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LifeSource | $43,208.00 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46,019.90 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Workers Comp | $46,019.90 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $46,019.90 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $46,019.90 | ↑ +53% |
| Other | Commercial|NTN | $47,136.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $47,373.43 | ↑ +58% |
| LifeTrac | Commercial|All Plans | $51,064.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Interlink | $54,992.00 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $54,992.00 | ↑ +83% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $62,062.40 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $78,560.00 | ↑ +162% |