Puncture spinal lumbar diagnostic at Doctors Hospital
5000 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, CORAL GABLES, FL · Baptist Health South Florida · · NPI 1952351983
$911.95
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.
$1,403.00
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.
$245.53 with BLUE CROSS vs $1,403.00 with UNITED HEALTHCARE — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLUE CROSS | MY BLUE EX | $245.53 | ↓ -73% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA HMO | $378.81 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HLTH MC HMO | $440.54 | ↓ -52% |
| MEDICAID | SIMPLYHLTH MD HMO NC | $468.92 | ↓ -49% |
| AMERIGROUP | AMERIGROUP | $468.92 | ↓ -49% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED MD HMO | $492.36 | ↓ -46% |
| WELLCARE | WELL CARE MD HMONC | $492.36 | ↓ -46% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HEALTHY KIDS | $492.36 | ↓ -46% |
| SUNSHINE STATE | SUNSHINE ST MD HMONC | $497.05 | ↓ -45% |
| AVMED | AVMED ENTRUST | $500.87 | ↓ -45% |
| VISTA | COVENTRY MEDICAID | $506.43 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | AETNA BETTER HEALTH MEDICAID | $506.43 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | AETNA BETTER HEALTH HEALTHY KIDS | $506.43 | ↓ -44% |
| NON CONTRACTED | OSCAR HEALTH EXCHANGE | $514.90 | ↓ -44% |
| MEDICAID | PRESTIGE MD HMO NC | $515.81 | ↓ -43% |
| AETNA | AETNA HMO EXCHANGE | $533.14 | ↓ -42% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA CONNECT NETWORK EXCHANGE | $533.14 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HMO | $539.00 | ↓ -41% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | NHP HMO | $539.00 | ↓ -41% |
| AVMED | AVMED INDIVIDUAL | $569.62 | ↓ -38% |
| AVMED | AVMED HMO | $583.65 | ↓ -36% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE SELECT | $589.26 | ↓ -35% |
| BLUE CROSS | BCBS FL SIMPLYBLUE HMO | $618.72 | ↓ -32% |
| AMERIHEALTH | AMERIHTH CARITAS NXT EX | $631.35 | ↓ -31% |
| AVMED | AVMED PPO | $694.49 | ↓ -24% |
| AETNA | AETNA TIER 2 | $715.53 | ↓ -22% |
| AETNA | AETNA HMO | $715.53 | ↓ -22% |
| MEDICARE | SIMPLYHLTH MC HMO NC | $737.14 | ↓ -19% |
| BLUE CROSS | BCBS MEDICARE PPO | $762.94 | ↓ -16% |
| MEDICA HEALTH PLAN | MEDICA MCR HMO | $788.74 | ↓ -14% |
| HUMANA | CAREPLUS MC HMO | $803.48 | ↓ -12% |
| HUMANA | HUMANA MEDICARE | $803.48 | ↓ -12% |
| MEDICARE MANAGED CARE | DOCTORS HEALTHCARE MC HMO | $810.85 | ↓ -11% |
| AVMED | AVMED MEDICARE | $810.85 | ↓ -11% |
| AETNA | AETNA MEDICARE | $825.59 | ↓ -9% |
| LEON MEDICAL | LEON HEALTH MC HMO | $825.59 | ↓ -9% |
| LEON MEDICAL | LEON MED MC HMO NC | $825.59 | ↓ -9% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $840.34 | ↓ -8% |
| BLUE CROSS | BCBS NETWORKBLUE | $841.80 | ↓ -8% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE CARE HMO | $841.80 | ↓ -8% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE CROSS | $909.14 | ↓ -0% |
| INTERNATIONAL | INTERNATIONAL AETNA | $911.95 | ↑ +0% |
| MEDICARE MANAGED CARE | PROMINENCE | $950.91 | ↑ +4% |
| MEDICARE | DEVOTED HEALTH MC HMO | $995.13 | ↑ +9% |
| DIMENSION HEALTH PLAN | DIMENSION PLUS | $1,052.25 | ↑ +15% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA PPO | $1,122.40 | ↑ +23% |
| AETNA | AETNA PPO | $1,122.40 | ↑ +23% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED PPO | $1,122.40 | ↑ +23% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | INTL UNITED HEALTH | $1,122.40 | ↑ +23% |
| AFFORDABLE | AFFORDABLE PPO | $1,192.55 | ↑ +31% |
| DIMENSION HEALTH PLAN | DIMENSION HEALTH PLANS | $1,262.70 | ↑ +38% |
| DIMENSION HEALTH PLAN | DIMENSION 2 | $1,262.70 | ↑ +38% |
| PHCS | PHCS | $1,262.70 | ↑ +38% |
| QUALITY HEALTH | MULTIPLAN | $1,262.70 | ↑ +38% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED INDIVIDUAL EXCHANGE | $1,403.00 | ↑ +54% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Puncture spinal lumbar diagnostic at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $2,252.23 | $700.28 – $1,230.28 |
| Adventhealth Lake Wales | Lake Wales | $2,252.23 | not published |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $2,252.23 | $700.28 – $1,574.45 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $2,409.99 | $401.00 – $1,636.44 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $1,348.47 | $700.28 – $1,610.28 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $2,557.97 | $737.14 – $1,346.01 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $3,882.45 | $29.92 – $5,077.05 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $3,882.45 | $61.45 – $2,986.50 |