Echo guide for transfusion at Baptist Hospital
8900 NORTH KENDALL DRIVE, MIAMI, FL · Baptist Health South Florida · · NPI 1528042884
$203.45
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.
$313.00
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.
$49.48 with BLUE CROSS vs $286.00 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 |
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| BLUE CROSS | MY BLUE EX | $49.48 | ↓ -76% |
| MEDICAID | SIMPLYHLTH MD HMO NC | $68.65 | ↓ -66% |
| AMERIGROUP | AMERIGROUP | $68.65 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED MD HMO | $72.08 | ↓ -65% |
| WELLCARE | WELL CARE MD HMONC | $72.08 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HEALTHY KIDS | $72.08 | ↓ -65% |
| SUNSHINE STATE | SUNSHINE ST MD HMONC | $72.77 | ↓ -64% |
| AETNA | AETNA BETTER HEALTH HEALTHY KIDS | $74.14 | ↓ -64% |
| AETNA | AETNA BETTER HEALTH MEDICAID | $74.14 | ↓ -64% |
| MEDICAID | PRESTIGE MD HMO NC | $75.51 | ↓ -63% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HLTH MC HMO | $89.80 | ↓ -56% |
| AVMED | AVMED ENTRUST | $101.53 | ↓ -50% |
| NON CONTRACTED | OSCAR HEALTH EXCHANGE | $104.96 | ↓ -48% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA CONNECT NETWORK EXCHANGE | $108.68 | ↓ -47% |
| AETNA | AETNA HMO EXCHANGE | $108.68 | ↓ -47% |
| AVMED | AVMED INDIVIDUAL | $115.54 | ↓ -43% |
| AVMED | AVMED HMO | $118.40 | ↓ -42% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE SELECT | $120.12 | ↓ -41% |
| BLUE CROSS | BCBS FL SIMPLYBLUE HMO | $125.84 | ↓ -38% |
| AMERIHEALTH | AMERIHTH CARITAS NXT EX | $128.70 | ↓ -37% |
| AVMED | AVMED PPO | $140.71 | ↓ -31% |
| AETNA | AETNA HMO | $145.86 | ↓ -28% |
| AETNA | AETNA CATASTROPHIC | $145.86 | ↓ -28% |
| AETNA | AETNA TIER 2 | $145.86 | ↓ -28% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA HMO | $148.72 | ↓ -27% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | NHP HMO | $171.60 | ↓ -16% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED HMO | $171.60 | ↓ -16% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE CARE HMO | $171.60 | ↓ -16% |
| BLUE CROSS | BCBS NETWORKBLUE | $171.60 | ↓ -16% |
| VISTA | COVENTRY MEDICAID | $173.17 | ↓ -15% |
| BLUE CROSS | BLUE CROSS | $185.33 | ↓ -9% |
| INTERNATIONAL | INTERNATIONAL AETNA | $185.90 | ↓ -9% |
| DIMENSION HEALTH PLAN | DIMENSION PLUS | $214.50 | ↑ +5% |
| AETNA | AETNA PPO | $228.80 | ↑ +12% |
| CIGNA | CIGNA PPO | $228.80 | ↑ +12% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED PPO | $228.80 | ↑ +12% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | INTL UNITED HEALTH | $228.80 | ↑ +12% |
| AFFORDABLE | AFFORDABLE PPO | $243.10 | ↑ +19% |
| DIMENSION HEALTH PLAN | DIMENSION HEALTH PLANS | $257.40 | ↑ +27% |
| PHCS | PHCS | $257.40 | ↑ +27% |
| QUALITY HEALTH | MULTIPLAN | $257.40 | ↑ +27% |
| DIMENSION HEALTH PLAN | DIMENSION 2 | $257.40 | ↑ +27% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | UNITED INDIVIDUAL EXCHANGE | $286.00 | ↑ +41% |
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Echo guide for transfusion at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| West Kendall Baptist Hospital | MIAMI | $203.45 | $53.52 – $281.70 |
| HCA FLORIDA MERCY HOSPITAL | MIAMI | not published | $933.83 – $953.49 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $936.65 | $56.96 – $536.00 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $936.65 | $50.97 – $536.00 |
| indian river hospital | Vero Beach | $588.25 | $53.23 – $724.00 |
| Bethesda Hospital East | BOYNTON BEACH | $203.45 | $62.91 – $313.00 |
| Doctors Hospital | CORAL GABLES | $203.45 | $54.78 – $281.70 |
| Baptist Health Hospital Doral | SOUTH MIAMI | $203.45 | $49.76 – $257.40 |