Cytopathology concentration technique smears & interpretation at HCA FLORIDA HIGHLANDS HOSPITAL
3600 S Highlands Ave, Sebring, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1598282246
$834.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$834.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$33.84 with United vs $417.00 with AvMed — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | $33.84 | ↓ -96% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCR | $71.72 | ↓ -91% |
| AvMed | HIX | $108.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | MCR | $158.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $158.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $163.73 | ↓ -80% |
| Simply Healthcare | HIX | $195.99 | ↓ -77% |
| AvMed | FullyInsured | $200.16 | ↓ -76% |
| AvMed | Engage | $216.84 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Focus | $216.84 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Flex | $216.84 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Select | $216.84 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Empower | $216.84 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $233.52 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $250.20 | ↓ -70% |
| Office of Sheiff Highland Co | GVT | $291.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | HMO | $308.58 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | PPO | $333.60 | ↓ -60% |
| United PPO | OptionsPPO | $366.96 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlanAppendix | $375.30 | ↓ -55% |
| AvMed | JacksonFirstNetworkOON | $417.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | QHP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Cytopathology concentration technique smears & interpretation at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Sebring | Sebring | $456.83 | $39.98 – $88.64 |
| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $360.87 | not published |
| Adventhealth Lake Wales | Lake Wales | $116.10 | $39.00 – $86.59 |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $44.39 | $37.05 – $83.31 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $143.48 | not published |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $205.43 | not published |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $166.19 | $39.00 – $71.22 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $299.65 | $11.52 – $190.00 |