Warde viscosity at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
350 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1982733655
$95.12
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.
$249.00
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.
$4.90 with United vs $77.00 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 | $4.90 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7.00 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumCare | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicare|All Other Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicare|Dual Complete | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $11.67 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.96 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | Medicare|OptumHealth | $12.84 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|DignityHealthEmployee | $14.63 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Exchange | $24.29 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus SureFit | $25.96 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Optum | Commercial|OptumHealth | $36.19 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $36.75 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $40.22 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $40.22 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LifeSource | $42.35 | ↓ -55% |
| Other | Commercial|NTN | $46.20 | ↓ -51% |
| LifeTrac | Commercial|All Plans | $50.05 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.63 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Interlink | $53.90 | ↓ -43% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $53.90 | ↓ -43% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $60.83 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Workers Comp | $77.00 | ↓ -19% |
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Warde viscosity at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $10.43 | $11.67 – $42.75 |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center | Phoenix | $12.88 | $11.67 – $42.75 |
| Arizona General Hospital Laveen | Phoenix | $50.16 | $7.00 – $178.93 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $11.49 | $6.54 – $35.95 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $7.81 | $11.67 – $45.60 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $7.41 | $11.67 – $45.60 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $25.65 | $11.67 – $42.75 |
| Banner Behavioral Health Hospital | Scottsdale | $33.40 | $11.67 – $39.90 |