Crystal identification light microscopy at HCA FLORIDA NORTHWEST HOSPITAL
2801 NORTH STATE ROAD 7, MARGATE, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1063466563
$171.00
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.
$171.00
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.
$7.26 with HUMANA vs $145.35 with Multiplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUMANA | MGMCRPPO | $7.26 | ↓ -96% |
| HUMANA | MGMCRHMO | $7.26 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | TRICR | $7.29 | ↓ -96% |
| CarePlus SFL | MGMCR | $7.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmed | MGMCR | $7.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Veterans Evaluation Services | MCR | $7.33 | ↓ -96% |
| NDMS Definitive Care | MGMCR | $7.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Devoted Health | MCR | $7.33 | ↓ -96% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $7.33 | ↓ -96% |
| United | GVT | $7.33 | ↓ -96% |
| United | MCR | $7.48 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $7.48 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MCRHMO | $7.48 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | MCR | $7.55 | ↓ -96% |
| Prominence HealthFirst | MCRHMO | $7.70 | ↓ -95% |
| AvMed | MCR | $7.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Oscar | MCR | $7.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Sunshine State | MCR | $7.70 | ↓ -95% |
| American Health Plan | MCR | $7.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Align | MCR | $7.84 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MGMCR | $7.84 | ↓ -95% |
| Florida Complete Care | MCR | $7.84 | ↓ -95% |
| Centurion | GVT | $8.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Doctors Healthcare Plan | MCR | $8.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Sunshine State | MCD | $8.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Gold Kidney | MCR | $8.21 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | MGMCR | $8.80 | ↓ -95% |
| Longevity Health Plan | MCR | $8.80 | ↓ -95% |
| Simply Healthcare | HIX | $9.31 | ↓ -95% |
| Oscar | HIX | $10.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Solis Health Plan | MCR | $10.63 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | HIX | $11.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCR | $14.71 | ↓ -91% |
| Optimum | MGMCR | $14.71 | ↓ -91% |
| AvMed | HIX | $22.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Simply Healthcare Plans | MGMCR | $22.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCD | $27.36 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | MCR | $32.49 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | HMO | $35.91 | ↓ -79% |
| AvMed | FullyInsured | $35.91 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Sun Health Plan | MGMCR | $36.42 | ↓ -79% |
| MMM of FL (Health Advantage Plan) | MCR | $39.33 | ↓ -77% |
| United PPO | OptionsPPO | $40.53 | ↓ -76% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $41.04 | ↓ -76% |
| AvMed | Select | $44.46 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Focus | $44.46 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Empower | $44.46 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Engage | $44.46 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Flex | $44.46 | ↓ -74% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $45.14 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | HIX | $46.17 | ↓ -73% |
| AvMed | JHSSelect | $47.88 | ↓ -72% |
| AvMed | MDCSelect | $47.88 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $51.30 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $58.14 | ↓ -66% |
| BLIS | COMM | $59.85 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlanAppendix | $76.95 | ↓ -55% |
| AvMed | JacksonFirstNetworkOON | $85.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $85.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sherriff | COMM | $85.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Medica HealthCare | MCR | $99.18 | ↓ -42% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $100.27 | ↓ -41% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $102.38 | ↓ -40% |
| CareWorks (Rockport) | WORKERSCOMP | $102.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $128.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $145.35 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Crystal identification light microscopy at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $217.41 | $6.96 – $12.23 |
| Adventhealth Lake Wales | Lake Wales | $217.41 | $7.33 – $16.27 |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $220.69 | $6.96 – $15.66 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $148.96 | $7.33 – $16.27 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $186.35 | $6.96 – $16.01 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $54.16 | $7.33 – $13.38 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $104.00 | $2.34 – $160.00 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $104.00 | $2.46 – $160.00 |