Specimen fat stain at HCA FLORIDA BRANDON HOSPITAL
8951 CYPRESS MANOR DR, TAMPA, FL · HCA Florida Healthcare · · NPI 1669427258
$12.51
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.
$12.51
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.
$0.59 with Access 2 Healthcare Physicians Freedom Optimum Group Members vs $94.55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access 2 Healthcare Physicians Freedom Optimum Group Members | MGMCR | $0.59 | ↓ -95% |
| Access 2 Healthcare Physicians Optimum | MGMCR | $0.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Access 2 Healthcare Physicians Freedom Health | MGMCR | $0.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Freedom Health Care | MGMGR | $0.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Optimum Healthcare | PFFS | $0.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Optimum Healthcare | MCRPPO | $0.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Optimum Healthcare | MCRHMO | $0.98 | ↓ -92% |
| AvMed | HIX | $1.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Simply Healthcare | MGMCR | $1.93 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2.05 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $2.38 | ↓ -81% |
| AvMed | HMOFI | $2.75 | ↓ -78% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | PrimeTier1 | $2.88 | ↓ -77% |
| AvMed | ASOEO | $3.13 | ↓ -75% |
| Sunshine State Health Plan | QHP | $3.19 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | HIX | $3.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $3.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | HMO | $3.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASA | $3.75 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $5.33 | ↓ -57% |
| CareSource | Tricare | $5.49 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlanAppendix | $5.63 | ↓ -55% |
| LifePath Hospice | COMM | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| United Behavioral Health | VACNN | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | MCR | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| United | MGMCD | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| WellMed | MCR | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| NDMS Definitive Care | MCR | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| United VA CCN | FED | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| Devoted Health | MCR | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $6.00 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS | MGMCRHMO | $6.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Ultimate Health Plan | MCR | $6.00 | ↓ -52% |
| United | MCR | $6.00 | ↓ -52% |
| HUMANA | MGMCRPPO | $6.17 | ↓ -51% |
| Sunshine State | MCR | $6.17 | ↓ -51% |
| BayCare Health Plans | MCR | $6.17 | ↓ -51% |
| WellCare | MCR | $6.17 | ↓ -51% |
| American Health Plan | MCR | $6.23 | ↓ -50% |
| Plotkin Health | COMM | $6.25 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Health Sheriff | COMM | $6.25 | ↓ -50% |
| Beacon Health Options | COMM | $6.25 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCR | $6.29 | ↓ -50% |
| Florida Complete Care | MCR | $6.29 | ↓ -50% |
| Align Senior Care | MCR | $6.29 | ↓ -50% |
| SECUR | MGMCR | $6.35 | ↓ -49% |
| Gold Kidney of Florida | Medicare | $6.41 | ↓ -49% |
| HUMANA | MGMCRHMO | $6.47 | ↓ -48% |
| Clear Spring Health | MCR | $6.47 | ↓ -48% |
| Centurion | LOGOV | $6.47 | ↓ -48% |
| CarePlus | MGMCR | $6.70 | ↓ -46% |
| Simply Healthcare | HIX | $6.94 | ↓ -45% |
| Longevity Health Plan | MCR | $7.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | PRIMENETWORK | $7.51 | ↓ -40% |
| Oscar | HIX | $8.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Solis Health Plan | MCR | $8.53 | ↓ -32% |
| Multiplan | PRIMARYPPO | $9.38 | ↓ -25% |
| Evernorth | BHCOMM | $10.01 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $10.63 | ↓ -15% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | ADVANTAGENETWORK | $10.63 | ↓ -15% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | SELECTNETWORK | $10.63 | ↓ -15% |
| Evolutions Healthcare Systems | CHOICENETWORK | $11.51 | ↓ -8% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $92.60 | ↑ +640% |
| Rockport Healthcare Group | WORKERSCOMP | $92.60 | ↑ +640% |
| Prime Health | WorkersComp | $94.55 | ↑ +656% |
| Aetna | NonGatedCOMM | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | GatedCOMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA FLORIDA SOUTH TAMPA HOSPITAL | Tampa | $17.00 | $5.33 – $94.55 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | not published | $5.88 – $13.05 |
| Adventhealth Carrollwood | Tampa | not published | $5.88 – $13.05 |
| HCA FLORIDA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | JACKSONVILLE | $164.00 | $4.70 – $93.14 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $7.15 | $2.34 – $9.35 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $7.15 | $2.46 – $8.66 |
| Baptist Hospital | MIAMI | $77.35 | $0.54 – $107.10 |
| Bethesda Hospital East | BOYNTON BEACH | $77.35 | $2.58 – $107.10 |