Culture screening strep group a at Homestead Hospital
975 BAPTIST WAY, HOMESTEAD, FL · Baptist Health South Florida · · NPI 1578547865
$196.95
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.
$303.00
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.
$4.86 with VISTA vs $303.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISTA | COVENTRY MEDICAID | $4.86 | ↓ -98% |
| MEDICAID | SIMPLYHLTH MD HMO NC | $5.00 | ↓ -97% |
| AMERIGROUP | AMERIGROUP | $5.00 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HEALTHY KIDS | $5.25 | ↓ -97% |
| WELLCARE | WELL CARE MD HMONC | $5.25 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED MD HMO | $5.25 | ↓ -97% |
| SUNSHINE STATE | SUNSHINE ST MD HMONC | $5.30 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | AETNA BETTER HEALTH HEALTHY KIDS | $5.40 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | AETNA BETTER HEALTH MEDICAID | $5.40 | ↓ -97% |
| MEDICAID | PRESTIGE MD HMO NC | $5.50 | ↓ -97% |
| LEON MEDICAL | LEON MED MC HMO NC | $6.63 | ↓ -97% |
| LEON MEDICAL | LEON HEALTH MC HMO | $6.63 | ↓ -97% |
| MEDICARE | SIMPLYHLTH MC HMO NC | $6.63 | ↓ -97% |
| BLUE CROSS | BCBS MEDICARE PPO | $6.86 | ↓ -97% |
| MEDICA HEALTH PLAN | MEDICA MCR HMO | $7.09 | ↓ -96% |
| HUMANA | CAREPLUS MC HMO | $7.23 | ↓ -96% |
| HUMANA | HUMANA MEDICARE | $7.23 | ↓ -96% |
| AVMED | AVMED MEDICARE | $7.29 | ↓ -96% |
| MEDICARE MANAGED CARE | DOCTORS HEALTHCARE MC HMO | $7.29 | ↓ -96% |
| AETNA | AETNA MEDICARE | $7.43 | ↓ -96% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $7.56 | ↓ -96% |
| MEDICARE MANAGED CARE | PROMINENCE | $8.55 | ↓ -96% |
| MEDICARE | DEVOTED HEALTH MC HMO | $8.95 | ↓ -95% |
| BLUE CROSS | MY BLUE EX | $51.51 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HLTH MC HMO | $95.14 | ↓ -52% |
| NON CONTRACTED | OSCAR HEALTH EXCHANGE | $111.20 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | AETNA HMO EXCHANGE | $115.14 | ↓ -42% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE SELECT | $127.26 | ↓ -35% |
| BLUE CROSS | BCBS FL SIMPLYBLUE HMO | $131.20 | ↓ -33% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA CONNECT NETWORK EXCHANGE | $133.93 | ↓ -32% |
| AMERIHEALTH | AMERIHTH CARITAS NXT EX | $136.35 | ↓ -31% |
| AETNA | AETNA TIER 2 | $154.53 | ↓ -22% |
| AETNA | AETNA HMO | $154.53 | ↓ -22% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA HMO | $157.56 | ↓ -20% |
| AVMED | AVMED ENTRUST | $161.80 | ↓ -18% |
| BLUE CROSS | BCBS NETWORKBLUE | $181.80 | ↓ -8% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE CARE HMO | $181.80 | ↓ -8% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HMO | $181.80 | ↓ -8% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | NHP HMO | $181.80 | ↓ -8% |
| AVMED | AVMED PPO | $194.53 | ↓ -1% |
| AVMED | AVMED INDIVIDUAL | $194.53 | ↓ -1% |
| AVMED | AVMED HMO | $194.53 | ↓ -1% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE CROSS | $196.34 | ↓ -0% |
| INTERNATIONAL | INTERNATIONAL AETNA | $196.95 | ↑ +0% |
| DIMENSION HEALTH PLAN | DIMENSION PLUS | $227.25 | ↑ +15% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | INTL UNITED HEALTH | $242.40 | ↑ +23% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA PPO | $242.40 | ↑ +23% |
| AETNA | AETNA PPO | $242.40 | ↑ +23% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED PPO | $242.40 | ↑ +23% |
| AFFORDABLE | AFFORDABLE PPO | $257.55 | ↑ +31% |
| PHCS | PHCS | $272.70 | ↑ +38% |
| DIMENSION HEALTH PLAN | DIMENSION HEALTH PLANS | $272.70 | ↑ +38% |
| QUALITY HEALTH | MULTIPLAN | $272.70 | ↑ +38% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED INDIVIDUAL EXCHANGE | $303.00 | ↑ +54% |
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Culture screening strep group a at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $325.80 | $6.30 – $11.07 |
| Adventhealth Lake Wales | Lake Wales | $358.37 | $6.63 – $14.72 |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $325.80 | $6.30 – $14.16 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $192.83 | $6.63 – $14.72 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $303.24 | $6.30 – $14.48 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $49.24 | $6.63 – $12.11 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $118.30 | $2.78 – $16.15 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $118.30 | $2.78 – $79.00 |