Carotene at HCA FLORIDA LAKE CITY HOSPITAL
1100 SW 11TH STREET, LIVE OAK, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1992751879
$16.50
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.
$16.50
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.
$1.98 with AvMed vs $73.23 with Careworks (Rockport Community) — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AvMed | HIX | $1.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Simply | MGMCR | $2.54 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | HMO | $3.30 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | PPO | $3.30 | ↓ -80% |
| Evolutions | TieredNetwork | $3.79 | ↓ -77% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $3.89 | ↓ -76% |
| AvMed | HMOFI | $3.96 | ↓ -76% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $4.21 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $4.62 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $4.95 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $5.28 | ↓ -68% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $7.42 | ↓ -55% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $8.25 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | WORKERSCOMP | $8.25 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | COMM | $8.25 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | HIXOON | $8.25 | ↓ -50% |
| Hospice of North Central FL | FEDERAL | $8.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $8.36 | ↓ -49% |
| Hamilton County Jail | Prison | $8.91 | ↓ -46% |
| NDMS Definitive Care | MGMCR | $9.22 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | MGMCRHMO | $9.22 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | MGMCRPPO | $9.22 | ↓ -44% |
| Wellmed | MGMCR | $9.22 | ↓ -44% |
| United | VACCN | $9.22 | ↓ -44% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9.22 | ↓ -44% |
| United | MCR | $9.40 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $9.40 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | MCRHMO | $9.40 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | MCR | $9.45 | ↓ -43% |
| WellCare | MCR | $9.68 | ↓ -41% |
| Sunshine State | MCR | $9.68 | ↓ -41% |
| American Health Plan | MCR | $9.77 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MCR | $9.87 | ↓ -40% |
| Florida Complete Care | MCR | $9.87 | ↓ -40% |
| Align Senior Care | MGMCR | $9.87 | ↓ -40% |
| Gold Kidney of Florida | MCR | $10.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Clear Spring Health | MCR | $10.14 | ↓ -39% |
| Centurion | GVT | $10.14 | ↓ -39% |
| Ultimate Health Plan | MCR | $10.60 | ↓ -36% |
| Longevity Health Plan | MCR | $11.06 | ↓ -33% |
| Oscar | HIX | $11.25 | ↓ -32% |
| Simply Healthcare | HIX | $11.53 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan | Primary | $12.87 | ↓ -22% |
| Evolutions | TRADITIONALPPO | $14.03 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | Complementary | $14.03 | ↓ -15% |
| PPO Next | PPO | $14.03 | ↓ -15% |
| PPO Next | COMM | $14.03 | ↓ -15% |
| NovaNet | COMM | $14.85 | ↓ -10% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $69.57 | ↑ +322% |
| Prime Health | WC | $71.03 | ↑ +330% |
| Careworks (Rockport Community) | WORKERSCOMP | $73.23 | ↑ +344% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |