Chg radiologic exam esophagus double contrast at HCA FLORIDA ST. PETERSBURG HOSPITAL
6500 38TH AVENUE, NORTH, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1518911031
$3,463.35
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.
$3,463.35
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.
$162.78 with Access 2 Healthcare Physicians Freedom Optimum Group Members vs $3,186.28 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.
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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| Access 2 Healthcare Physicians Freedom Optimum Group Members | MGMCR | $162.78 | ↓ -95% |
| Access 2 Healthcare Physicians Freedom Health | MGMCR | $249.36 | ↓ -93% |
| Access 2 Healthcare Physicians Optimum | MGMCR | $249.36 | ↓ -93% |
| Freedom Health Care | MGMGR | $270.14 | ↓ -92% |
| Optimum Healthcare | MCRPPO | $270.14 | ↓ -92% |
| Optimum Healthcare | PFFS | $270.14 | ↓ -92% |
| Optimum Healthcare | MCRHMO | $270.14 | ↓ -92% |
| AvMed | HIX | $277.07 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | ↓ -88% |
| Simply Healthcare | MGMCR | $533.36 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $567.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $658.04 | ↓ -81% |
| AvMed | HMOFI | $761.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | PrimeTier1 | $796.57 | ↓ -77% |
| Rockport Healthcare Group | WORKERSCOMP | $798.28 | ↓ -77% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $798.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Prime Health | WorkersComp | $815.08 | ↓ -76% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $865.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $883.15 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | HIX | $935.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $969.74 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | HMO | $969.74 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,039.01 | ↓ -70% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlanAppendix | $1,558.51 | ↓ -55% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $1,731.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | COMM | $1,731.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | PRIMENETWORK | $1,731.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | SELECTNETWORK | $2,597.51 | ↓ -25% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | ADVANTAGENETWORK | $2,597.51 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | PRIMARYPPO | $2,597.51 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $2,943.85 | ↓ -15% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | CHOICENETWORK | $3,186.28 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | NonGatedCOMM | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | GatedCOMM | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHP | not published by hospital | — |
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