Carotene at HCA FLORIDA AVENTURA HOSPITAL
18000 NW 57TH AVE, HIALEAH, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1407801673
$59.00
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.
$59.00
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.
$5.07 with Optimum vs $82.30 with CareWorks (Rockport) — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optimum | MGMCR | $5.07 | ↓ -91% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCR | $5.07 | ↓ -91% |
| AvMed | HIX | $7.08 | ↓ -88% |
| Simply Healthcare Plans | MGMCR | $7.67 | ↓ -87% |
| HUMANA | MGMCRHMO | $9.13 | ↓ -85% |
| HUMANA | MGMCRPPO | $9.13 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | TRICR | $9.18 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellmed | MGMCR | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| United Behavioral Health | VACCN | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| United | GVT | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MGMCR | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| CarePlus SFL | MGMCR | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| Leon Health | MCR | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| NDMS Definitive Care | MGMCR | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| Veterans Evaluation Services | MCR | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| Devoted Health | MCR | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MCRHMO | $9.40 | ↓ -84% |
| United | MCR | $9.40 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $9.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCD | $9.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | MCR | $9.50 | ↓ -84% |
| Oscar | MCR | $9.68 | ↓ -84% |
| Prominence HealthFirst | MCRHMO | $9.68 | ↓ -84% |
| Sunshine State | MCR | $9.68 | ↓ -84% |
| American Health Plan | MCR | $9.77 | ↓ -83% |
| Align | MCR | $9.87 | ↓ -83% |
| Florida Complete Care | MCR | $9.87 | ↓ -83% |
| AvMed | MCR | $9.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | MCR | $10.03 | ↓ -83% |
| Centurion | GVT | $10.14 | ↓ -83% |
| Sunshine State | MCD | $10.14 | ↓ -83% |
| Doctors Healthcare Plan | MCR | $10.14 | ↓ -83% |
| Gold Kidney | MCR | $10.33 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | MGMCR | $11.06 | ↓ -81% |
| Longevity Health Plan | MCR | $11.06 | ↓ -81% |
| Simply Healthcare | HIX | $11.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | HMO | $12.39 | ↓ -79% |
| AvMed | FullyInsured | $12.39 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Sun Health Plan | MGMCR | $12.57 | ↓ -79% |
| AIDS Healthcare | MGMCR | $12.98 | ↓ -78% |
| Oscar | HIX | $13.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Solis Health Plan | MCR | $13.37 | ↓ -77% |
| MMM of FL (Health Advantage Plan) | MCR | $13.57 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | HIX | $13.83 | ↓ -77% |
| United PPO | OptionsPPO | $13.98 | ↓ -76% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $14.16 | ↓ -76% |
| AvMed | Focus | $15.34 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Select | $15.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $15.34 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Empower | $15.34 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Engage | $15.34 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Flex | $15.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | HIX | $15.93 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | ASA | $17.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $20.06 | ↓ -66% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlanAppendix | $26.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $29.50 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | MDCSelectOON | $29.50 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | JacksonFirstNetworkOON | $29.50 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | JHSSelectHMO | $29.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sherriff | COMM | $29.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Medica HealthCare | MCR | $34.22 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $44.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Evernorth BH | COMM | $47.20 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $50.15 | ↓ -15% |
| AIDS Healthcare | MGMCD | $70.80 | ↑ +20% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $80.61 | ↑ +37% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $82.30 | ↑ +39% |
| CareWorks (Rockport) | WORKERSCOMP | $82.30 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
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Carotene at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $62.88 | $9.22 – $20.47 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $35.60 | $8.76 – $20.14 |
| HCA FLORIDA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | JACKSONVILLE | $10.00 | $7.38 – $75.49 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $61.22 | $9.22 – $16.84 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $9.10 | $2.59 – $14.00 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $26.00 | $2.73 – $13.58 |
| Baptist Hospital | MIAMI | $27.30 | $2.85 – $37.80 |
| Bethesda Hospital East | BOYNTON BEACH | $27.30 | $2.85 – $37.80 |