Head CT scan (with contrast) at HCA FLORIDA LAKE MONROE HOSPITAL
1401 WEST SEMINOLE BLVD, SANFORD, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1285681908
$20,208.75
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.
$20,208.75
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.
$401.74 with United vs $18,187.88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | QHP | $1,186.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Freedom Health | MCR | $1,455.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Optimum | MGMCR | $1,455.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,460.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,460.00 | ↓ -93% |
| AvMed | HMOFI | $1,695.00 | ↓ -92% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $1,863.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Simply | MGMCR | $3,112.15 | ↓ -85% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $3,297.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Prime Health | WC | $3,367.04 | ↓ -83% |
| Careworks (Rockport Community) | WORKERSCOMP | $3,471.18 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina Healthcare | MGMCR | $3,839.66 | ↓ -81% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $5,153.23 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | ASA | $6,062.63 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $6,466.80 | ↓ -68% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $6,749.72 | ↓ -67% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $9,093.94 | ↓ -55% |
| AvMed | HIXOON | $10,104.38 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | COMM | $10,104.38 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | WORKERSCOMP | $10,104.38 | ↓ -50% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $10,104.38 | ↓ -50% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | WorkersComp | $15,156.56 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | PRIMARYPPO | $15,156.56 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | Primary | $15,762.83 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan | Complementary | $17,177.44 | ↓ -15% |
| PPO Next | PPO | $17,177.44 | ↓ -15% |
| PPO Next | COMM | $17,177.44 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $17,177.44 | ↓ -15% |
| NovaNet | COMM | $18,187.88 | ↓ -10% |
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Head CT scan (with contrast) at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $4,055.36 | $174.01 – $437.27 |
| Adventhealth Lake Wales | Lake Wales | $8,427.48 | $183.17 – $530.75 |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $3,773.53 | $174.01 – $631.85 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $8,189.96 | $183.17 – $429.66 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $2,624.67 | $174.01 – $570.98 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $8,109.68 | $183.17 – $347.52 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $1,320.80 | $46.45 – $1,304.75 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $997.75 | $41.56 – $767.50 |