Barium Swallow (Esophagus X-ray) at indian river hospital
1000 36th Street, Vero Beach, FL · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1376512988
$997.75
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.
$1,535.00
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.
$20.52 with Blue Cross vs $1,228.00 with MULTIPLAN — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Cross | Health Options | $20.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross | Network Blue | $21.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross | Perferred Patient Care | $21.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross | Traditional (PPS) | $21.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | PPO First Health | $25.56 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $28.23 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage PPO | $28.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage HMO | $28.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Careplus | Medicare Advantage | $28.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Avmed | Medicare Advantage | $28.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Value Options | Medicare Advantage | $28.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Magellan | Medicare Advantage | $28.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $28.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Independent Living Systems | Medicare Advantage | $29.64 | ↓ -97% |
| WellMed | Medicare Advantage | $30.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Freedom Health | Medicare Advantage | $30.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Clear Spring Health | All Products | $31.07 | ↓ -97% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid | $33.81 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health | $34.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $35.59 | ↓ -96% |
| MOLINA | Florida KidCare | $35.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Medicaid | Managed Medicaid | $35.59 | ↓ -96% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $35.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Carelon BH Strategies | Managed Medicaid | $35.59 | ↓ -96% |
| SUNSHINE HEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $35.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Florida Kidcare | $35.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage PCP | $35.67 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage Specialist | $36.25 | ↓ -96% |
| United | All Products | $36.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Avmed | Exchange | $37.34 | ↓ -96% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $37.37 | ↓ -96% |
| Avmed | Select | $38.77 | ↓ -96% |
| AETNA | Managed Medicaid/CHIP | $39.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Avmed | Broad | $41.64 | ↓ -96% |
| Independent Living Systems | Managed Medicaid | $42.71 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | POS First Health | $108.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Clear Spring Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $138.32 | ↓ -86% |
| The Legacy Companies | All Products | $156.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Clarity Health | All Products | $156.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Three Rivers | All Products | $156.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Carelon BH Strategies | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $178.69 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $178.69 | ↓ -82% |
| Careplus | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $178.69 | ↓ -82% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $178.69 | ↓ -82% |
| BLUE CROSS | Medicare Advantage PPO | $178.69 | ↓ -82% |
| Freedom Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $178.69 | ↓ -82% |
| BLUE CROSS | Medicare Advantage HMO | $178.69 | ↓ -82% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $180.00 | ↓ -82% |
| WellMed | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $183.17 | ↓ -82% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $183.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellcare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $183.17 | ↓ -82% |
| AVMED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $185.84 | ↓ -81% |
| Independent Living Systems | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $187.63 | ↓ -81% |
| DEVOTED HEALTH | Medicare Advantage HMO | $201.48 | ↓ -80% |
| National Provider Network | All Products | $204.00 | ↓ -80% |
| BLUE CROSS | HMO | $212.00 | ↓ -79% |
| BLUE CROSS | BSL | $212.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $216.00 | ↓ -78% |
| BLUE CROSS | NWBI | $237.00 | ↓ -76% |
| BLUE CROSS | NWB | $237.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Surefit Physician | $240.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Surefit Mid-Level | $240.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Individual Family Plan Physician | $240.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Individual Family Plan Mid-Level | $240.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $240.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $240.00 | ↓ -76% |
| BLUE CROSS | PHS | $265.00 | ↓ -73% |
| BLUE CROSS | PPO | $265.00 | ↓ -73% |
| AVMED | EXCHANGE | $280.55 | ↓ -72% |
| AVMED | Select | $314.50 | ↓ -68% |
| AETNA | QHP | $359.19 | ↓ -64% |
| CIGNA | Individual Family Plan | $394.50 | ↓ -60% |
| AVMED | BROAD | $409.21 | ↓ -59% |
| CIGNA | SUREFIT | $475.85 | ↓ -52% |
| CIGNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $488.13 | ↓ -51% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $546.46 | ↓ -45% |
| BMI | ALL PRODUCTS | $767.50 | ↓ -23% |
| MAGELLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $921.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Clarity Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $997.75 | ↑ +0% |
| The Legacy Companies | ALL PRODUCTS | $997.75 | ↑ +0% |
| AETNA | All Products First Health | $1,228.00 | ↑ +23% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,228.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | All Products Behavioral Health | not published by hospital | — |
| HUMANA | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Magellan | Pinnacle | not published by hospital | — |
| Magellan | Summit | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | All Products Anesthesia | not published by hospital | — |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| UNITED | International | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| UNITED | NHP | not published by hospital | — |
| Value Options | All Products | not published by hospital | — |
| Value Options | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Medical Rental | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | All Products Specialist | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | All Products PCP | not published by hospital | — |
| Consociate Health | Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Barium Swallow (Esophagus X-ray) at other Florida hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Daytona Beach | Daytona Beach | $1,090.75 | $167.61 – $305.71 |
| Adventhealth Palm Coast Parkway | Palm Coast | $1,182.30 | $151.33 – $631.85 |
| Adventhealth Tampa | Tampa | $1,102.75 | $136.01 – $429.66 |
| AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach | New Smyrna Beach | $639.18 | $174.01 – $400.13 |
| Adventhealth Port Charlotte | Port Charlotte | $1,672.90 | $142.14 – $334.46 |
| cleveland clinic florida weston hospital | Weston | $1,153.75 | $19.18 – $1,304.75 |
| martin north hospital | Stuart | $997.75 | $17.16 – $767.50 |
| Baptist Hospital | MIAMI | $824.85 | $35.25 – $1,142.10 |