Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at Banner Boswell Medical Center
10401 West Thunderbird Blvd, Sun City, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1952560914
$27.93
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.
$185.00
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.
$61.50 with Banner Health vs $258.18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $61.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $62.16 | ↑ +123% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $64.58 | ↑ +131% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $64.58 | ↑ +131% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $64.75 | ↑ +132% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $67.65 | ↑ +142% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $67.65 | ↑ +142% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $83.25 | ↑ +198% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $83.25 | ↑ +198% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $83.64 | ↑ +199% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $86.10 | ↑ +208% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $91.02 | ↑ +226% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $92.25 | ↑ +230% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $97.50 | ↑ +249% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $99.90 | ↑ +258% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $101.47 | ↑ +263% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $107.95 | ↑ +287% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $113.75 | ↑ +307% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $119.94 | ↑ +329% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $125.77 | ↑ +350% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $138.38 | ↑ +395% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $138.75 | ↑ +397% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $148.00 | ↑ +430% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $161.39 | ↑ +478% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $172.15 | ↑ +516% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $180.75 | ↑ +547% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $206.52 | ↑ +639% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $215.18 | ↑ +670% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $215.18 | ↑ +670% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $215.18 | ↑ +670% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $219.43 | ↑ +686% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $258.18 | ↑ +824% |
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Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $29.60 | $61.50 – $138.75 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $29.97 | $61.50 – $148.00 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $28.86 | $61.50 – $148.00 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $23.50 | $61.50 – $138.75 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $20.91 | $61.50 – $138.75 |
| Banner Del Webb Medical Center | Sun City West | $28.49 | $61.50 – $148.00 |
| Banner Desert Medical Center | Mesa | $27.75 | $61.50 – $138.75 |
| Banner Ironwood Medical Center | San Tan Valley | $32.00 | $61.50 – $138.75 |