Contrast baths charges at HCA FLORIDA LEHIGH HOSPITAL

1500 LEE BLVD, LEHIGH ACRES, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1982426615

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$158.87

Cash price

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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.

$158.87

Gross charge

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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.

$12.39 with Freedom Health Care vs $146.16 with Evolutions Healthcare Systems — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Freedom Health Care MGMGR $12.39 ↓ -92%
Optimum Healthcare PFFS $12.39 ↓ -92%
Optimum Healthcare MCRPPO $12.39 ↓ -92%
Optimum Healthcare MCRHMO $12.39 ↓ -92%
Humana TRICARE $12.95 ↓ -92%
CareSource Tricare $13.35 ↓ -92%
Aetna MCR $13.90 ↓ -91%
United MGMCD $13.90 ↓ -91%
WellMed MCR $13.90 ↓ -91%
BCBS MCRPPO $14.18 ↓ -91%
United MCR $14.18 ↓ -91%
BCBS MGMCRHMO $14.18 ↓ -91%
HUMANA MGMCRPPO $14.60 ↓ -91%
WellCare MCR $14.73 ↓ -91%
HUMANA MGMCRHMO $15.29 ↓ -90%
Longevity Health Plan MCR $16.68 ↓ -90%
Simply Healthcare HIX $20.18 ↓ -87%
Oscar HIX $23.83 ↓ -85%
Simply Healthcare MGMCR $24.47 ↓ -85%
United OptionsPPO $26.05 ↓ -84%
Cigna PPO $27.64 ↓ -83%
Cigna HMO $27.64 ↓ -83%
Evolutions Healthcare Systems PrimeTier1 $36.54 ↓ -77%
Sunshine State Health Plan QHP $40.51 ↓ -75%
Aetna ASA $47.66 ↓ -70%
Plotkin Health COMM $79.44 ↓ -50%
Evolutions Healthcare Systems PRIMENETWORK $79.44 ↓ -50%
Evolutions Healthcare Systems ADVANTAGENETWORK $119.15 ↓ -25%
Evolutions Healthcare Systems SELECTNETWORK $119.15 ↓ -25%
Evolutions Healthcare Systems CHOICENETWORK $146.16 ↓ -8%
Aetna NonGatedCOMM not published by hospital
Aetna QHP not published by hospital
Aetna GatedCOMM not published by hospital

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Contrast baths charges at other Florida hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Adventhealth Tampa Tampa $117.84 $14.81 – $32.88
cleveland clinic florida weston hospital Weston $102.70 $9.69 – $134.30
martin north hospital Stuart $102.70 $17.37 – $118.50
Baptist Hospital MIAMI $98.15 $14.81 – $173.17
Bethesda Hospital East BOYNTON BEACH $98.15 $14.39 – $135.90
Doctors Hospital CORAL GABLES $98.15 $14.81 – $135.90
Baptist Health Hospital Doral SOUTH MIAMI $98.15 $14.81 – $135.90
Fishermens Community Hospital MARATHON $98.15 $17.22 – $135.90

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