Brain MRI (without contrast) at HCA FLORIDA CAPITAL HOSPITAL
3157 NORTH MONROE ST, TALLAHASSEE, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1790732303
$3,637.30
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.
$3,637.30
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.
$517.79 with United vs $3,637.30 with Beacon Health Options — 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 | $517.79 | ↓ -86% |
| Simply | MGMCR | $560.14 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina Healthcare | MGMCR | $691.09 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $738.37 | ↓ -80% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $927.51 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,091.19 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1,163.94 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | QHP | $1,256.00 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $1,636.79 | ↓ -55% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | COMM | $1,818.65 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | WORKERSCOMP | $1,818.65 | ↓ -50% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $1,818.65 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | HIXOON | $1,818.65 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,885.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,885.00 | ↓ -48% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $2,279.67 | ↓ -37% |
| Prime Health | WC | $2,327.66 | ↓ -36% |
| Careworks (Rockport Community) | WORKERSCOMP | $2,399.65 | ↓ -34% |
| Multiplan | Primary | $2,837.09 | ↓ -22% |
| Evernorth | BHCOMM | $2,909.84 | ↓ -20% |
| PPO Next | COMM | $3,091.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | Complementary | $3,091.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Evolutions Healthcare | TRADITIONALPPO | $3,091.70 | ↓ -15% |
| PPO Next | PPO | $3,091.70 | ↓ -15% |
| AvMed | HMOFI | $3,110.00 | ↓ -14% |
| NovaNet | COMM | $3,273.57 | ↓ -10% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $3,418.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Beacon Health Options | MCR | $3,637.30 | ↑ +0% |
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Brain MRI (without contrast) at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $5,130.95 | $236.71 – $517.67 |
| Adventhealth Lake Wales | Lake Wales | $13,405.00 | $249.17 – $553.15 |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $4,395.32 | $236.71 – $703.89 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $5,841.17 | $249.17 – $553.15 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $4,290.74 | $236.71 – $675.95 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $7,833.94 | $249.17 – $454.98 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $1,778.40 | $61.08 – $1,772.25 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $1,643.85 | $54.65 – $1,042.50 |