Sputum specimen collection at HCA FLORIDA CAPITAL HOSPITAL
3157 NORTH MONROE ST, TALLAHASSEE, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1790732303
$816.65
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.
$816.65
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.
$84.86 with CorVel Corporation vs $816.65 with Beacon Health Options — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $84.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Prime Health | WC | $86.65 | ↓ -89% |
| Careworks (Rockport Community) | WORKERSCOMP | $89.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Oscar | HIX | $106.16 | ↓ -87% |
| Simply | MGMCR | $125.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Simply Healthcare | HIX | $136.38 | ↓ -83% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $149.16 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina Healthcare | MGMCR | $155.16 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | PPO | $163.33 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | HMO | $163.33 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $165.78 | ↓ -80% |
| AvMed | HMOFI | $196.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $208.25 | ↓ -74% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $228.66 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $245.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $261.33 | ↓ -68% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $367.49 | ↓ -55% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | WORKERSCOMP | $408.32 | ↓ -50% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $408.32 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | COMM | $408.32 | ↓ -50% |
| AvMed | HIXOON | $408.32 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | Primary | $636.99 | ↓ -22% |
| Evernorth | BHCOMM | $653.32 | ↓ -20% |
| PPO Next | COMM | $694.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | Complementary | $694.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Evolutions Healthcare | TRADITIONALPPO | $694.15 | ↓ -15% |
| PPO Next | PPO | $694.15 | ↓ -15% |
| NovaNet | COMM | $734.99 | ↓ -10% |
| Beacon Health Options | MCR | $816.65 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Sputum specimen collection at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA FLORIDA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | JACKSONVILLE | $644.00 | $91.22 – $149.16 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $117.00 | $8.20 – $195.71 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $117.00 | $31.54 – $195.71 |
| HCA FLORIDA KENDALL HOSPITAL | DORAL | $585.00 | $99.46 – $149.16 |
| HCA FLORIDA AVENTURA HOSPITAL | HIALEAH | $180.00 | $99.46 – $149.16 |
| HCA FLORIDA HIGHLANDS HOSPITAL | Sebring | $409.00 | $85.46 – $149.16 |
| HCA FLORIDA MERCY HOSPITAL | MIAMI | $1,506.00 | $99.46 – $149.16 |
| HCA FLORIDA NORTHWEST HOSPITAL | MARGATE | $536.00 | $100.27 – $149.16 |