Low cost skin substitute app at Banner Boswell Medical Center
10401 West Thunderbird Blvd, Sun City, AZ · Banner Health · · NPI 1952560914
$159.17
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.
$660.00
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.
$221.76 with Aetna vs $3,327.16 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Banner Employee Plans | $221.76 | ↑ +39% |
| Hospice of the Valley | Medicare | $231.00 | ↑ +45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions Inc (NHSI) and VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group (VUMI) | NHSI VUMI | $297.00 | ↑ +87% |
| Plotkin Health | Plotkin Health | $297.00 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | Joint Venture | $304.92 | ↑ +92% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Doctor's Plan | $320.10 | ↑ +101% |
| Aetna | Designated Group | $324.06 | ↑ +104% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Core | $334.62 | ↑ +110% |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | $347.82 | ↑ +119% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $352.44 | ↑ +121% |
| Quiktrip Corporation | Commercial | $356.40 | ↑ +124% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicaid | $380.02 | ↑ +139% |
| Banner University Health Plan | AZ Medicaid - AHCCCS | $380.02 | ↑ +139% |
| Health Net | Medicaid | $380.02 | ↑ +139% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicaid | $380.02 | ↑ +139% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Medicaid | $380.02 | ↑ +139% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $380.82 | ↑ +139% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | LocalFlex | $433.62 | ↑ +172% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | Commercial | $453.42 | ↑ +185% |
| Provider Network of America | Commercial | $495.00 | ↑ +211% |
| Arizona Medical Network | Commercial | $528.00 | ↑ +232% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage HMO | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Arizona Physicians IPA | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Banner Health | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Banner University Health Plan | University Care Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Care 1st | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | HMO Medicare Advantage Plans | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, Inc. | PPO Medicare Advantage Plan | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Gila River Health Care Corporation | Managed Care Program | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Mercy Care | Mercy Care Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | VA Community Care Network | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $652.42 | ↑ +310% |
| Carelon | Medicare Advantage | $685.04 | ↑ +330% |
| Devoted Health Services | Medicare Advantage | $685.04 | ↑ +330% |
| Gold Kidney Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $717.66 | ↑ +351% |
| Arizona Priority Care | Medicare Advantage | $717.66 | ↑ +351% |
| Aetna | Qualified Health Plan | $887.29 | ↑ +457% |
| United Healthcare | Individual Exchange | $913.39 | ↑ +474% |
| Health Net | Commerical Exchange Product | $965.58 | ↑ +507% |
| Health Choice Arizona, Inc. | ACA Health Plan | $978.63 | ↑ +515% |
| Oscar Health Plan | Commercial | $1,076.49 | ↑ +576% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Neighborhood | $2,495.41 | ↑ +1468% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Alliance/Blue HPN | $2,661.73 | ↑ +1572% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BXBSAZ Alliance CHS | $2,794.82 | ↑ +1656% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Medicare Supplemental Senior Preferred | $3,327.16 | ↑ +1990% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | BCBSAZ Workers Comp | $3,327.16 | ↑ +1990% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona | Commercial | $3,327.16 | ↑ +1990% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Low cost skin substitute app at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $341.88 | $221.76 – $1,076.49 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $253.44 | $221.76 – $1,076.49 |
| Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | Casa Grande | $297.00 | $231.00 – $978.63 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | not published | $380.02 – $2,788.18 |