Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) CT scan (with contrast) at HCA FLORIDA PALMS WEST HOSPITAL
13001 SOUTHERN BLVD, LOXAHATCHEE, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1528014669
$14,199.00
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.
$14,199.00
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.
$550.00 with Healthy Palm Beaches vs $17,038.80 with AIDS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Palm Beaches | COMM | $550.00 | ↓ -96% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $828.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHP | $868.00 | ↓ -94% |
| AvMed | HIX | $890.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,061.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Optimum | MGMCR | $1,221.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCR | $1,221.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,462.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Simply Healthcare Plans | MGMCR | $1,845.87 | ↓ -87% |
| AvMed | Select | $2,097.00 | ↓ -85% |
| AvMed | Focus | $2,097.00 | ↓ -85% |
| AvMed | Flex | $2,097.00 | ↓ -85% |
| AvMed | Engage | $2,097.00 | ↓ -85% |
| AvMed | Empower | $2,097.00 | ↓ -85% |
| AvMed | FullyInsured | $2,119.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCD | $2,271.84 | ↓ -84% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $2,329.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | MCR | $2,697.81 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Sun Health Plan | MGMCR | $3,024.39 | ↓ -79% |
| AIDS Healthcare | MGMCR | $3,123.78 | ↓ -78% |
| MMM of FL (Health Advantage Plan) | MCR | $3,265.77 | ↓ -77% |
| United PPO | OptionsPPO | $3,365.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $3,691.74 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | HIX | $3,833.73 | ↓ -73% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $3,950.90 | ↓ -72% |
| CareWorks (Rockport) | WORKERSCOMP | $4,034.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $4,034.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $4,259.70 | ↓ -70% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlanAppendix | $6,389.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Palm Beach Juvenile Correction | GVT | $7,099.50 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | JacksonFirstNetworkOON | $7,099.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sherriff | COMM | $7,099.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $7,099.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Care District | COMM | $7,099.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Medica HealthCare | MCR | $8,235.42 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $10,649.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $12,069.15 | ↓ -15% |
| AIDS Healthcare | MGMCD | $17,038.80 | ↑ +20% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) CT scan (with contrast) at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $4,644.91 | $346.11 – $608.05 |
| Adventhealth Lake Wales | Lake Wales | $9,676.14 | $337.22 – $958.38 |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $4,801.86 | $346.11 – $1,140.93 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $8,472.61 | $332.53 – $808.79 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $2,880.34 | $346.11 – $795.86 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $8,035.82 | $347.52 – $665.25 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $2,351.05 | $50.71 – $2,618.00 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $2,002.00 | $45.37 – $1,540.00 |