Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at HCA FLORIDA GULF COAST HOSPITAL
449 WEST 23RD STREET, PANAMA CITY, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1699721589
$5,246.15
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.
$5,246.15
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.
$134.90 with CorVel Corporation vs $4,721.53 with NovaNet — 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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| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $134.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Prime Health | WC | $137.74 | ↓ -97% |
| Careworks (Rockport Community) | WORKERSCOMP | $142.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Oscar | HIX | $682.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Simply | MGMCR | $807.91 | ↓ -85% |
| Simply Healthcare | HIX | $876.11 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | NBN | $912.83 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina Healthcare | MGMCR | $996.77 | ↓ -81% |
| AvMed | HMOFI | $1,259.08 | ↓ -76% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,274.81 | ↓ -76% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $1,337.77 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $1,468.92 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,573.85 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1,678.77 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,993.54 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,993.54 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,177.15 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | ManagedCareHMO | $2,177.15 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $2,360.77 | ↓ -55% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | COMM | $2,623.07 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | HIXOON | $2,623.07 | ↓ -50% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $2,623.07 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | WORKERSCOMP | $2,623.07 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | Primary | $4,092.00 | ↓ -22% |
| PPO Next | COMM | $4,459.23 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | Complementary | $4,459.23 | ↓ -15% |
| PPO Next | PPO | $4,459.23 | ↓ -15% |
| NovaNet | COMM | $4,721.53 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | QHP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Sacred Heart Bay (Bay County Health System, Inc.) | Panama City | $2,372.80 | $550.37 – $1,678.00 |
| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $1,961.72 | $542.08 – $952.35 |
| Adventhealth Lake Wales | Lake Wales | $13,083.37 | $570.61 – $1,266.75 |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $2,490.76 | $542.08 – $1,218.77 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $3,964.88 | $570.61 – $1,266.75 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $3,524.36 | $542.08 – $1,246.50 |
| HCA FLORIDA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | JACKSONVILLE | $6,474.00 | $134.90 – $137.74 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $6,805.02 | $570.61 – $1,041.93 |