Chg radiologic exam esophagus double contrast at HCA FLORIDA ST. LUCIE HOSPITAL
2551 S Kanner Hwy, STUART, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1538115696
$700.00
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$700.00
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.
$60.20 with Optimum vs $836.62 with Prime Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optimum | MGMCR | $60.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCR | $60.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Simply Healthcare Plans | MGMCR | $91.00 | ↓ -87% |
| AvMed | HIX | $91.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Freedom Health | MGMCD | $112.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | MCR | $133.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Sun Health Plan | MGMCR | $149.10 | ↓ -79% |
| AvMed | FullyInsured | $168.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $178.50 | ↓ -75% |
| AvMed | Select | $182.00 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Focus | $182.00 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Flex | $182.00 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Engage | $182.00 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | Empower | $182.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | HIX | $189.00 | ↓ -73% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $196.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $210.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | HMO | $259.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | PPO | $280.00 | ↓ -60% |
| United PPO | OptionsPPO | $308.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlanAppendix | $315.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Prime Health Sherriff | COMM | $350.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $350.00 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | JacksonFirstNetworkOON | $350.00 | ↓ -50% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | ↓ -43% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOPRIMARYNETWORK | $525.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | COMMPPOCOMPLEMENTARYNETWORK | $595.00 | ↓ -15% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $819.37 | ↑ +17% |
| CareWorks (Rockport) | WORKERSCOMP | $836.62 | ↑ +20% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $836.62 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | QHP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
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