CMS Price Transparency Data

Echocardiogram (heart ultrasound)

Facility: HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital

Billing Code: 93306 (CPT)

The BaseRate · fair price medium confidence

A fair price for this

$975

about 1.7× the $558 Medicare rate · typically $459–$1,520

modeled estimate · not a bill or quote

What this hospital charges insurers

$976

About the fair price

about $1 over the fair price · 1.7× Medicare

Medicare pays $558 Fair price $975 This hospital $976 Cash price $10,061 Hospital's list price $10,061

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How this hospital compares to other FL hospitals

Highest price of the 9 FL hospitals we have prices for — worth calling around.

Cheapest $108 Priciest $976

Black dot = this hospital, among the 9 FL hospitals with a price for this procedure. Full list below.

⚠ The cash price looks unusually high next to the insurance price — it may be the full list price, not a real cash discount. Call to confirm the self-pay rate.

A fair price for a Echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) is about $975 (about 1.7× the $558 Medicare rate). HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital charges insurers about $976, or about $10,061 in cash — about the fair price. Located in Sarasota, FL.

What each insurance company pays

Which insurers have negotiated a price with this hospital for this procedure — and which haven’t.

4 of 6 major insurers have a published price at this hospital

✓ UnitedHealthcare✓ Aetna✓ Cigna✓ Humana Blue Cross Blue ShieldKaiser Permanente

Crossed out = this hospital hasn’t published a negotiated price for that insurer for this procedure. It doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t accepted — ask your insurer.

Insurance company	Price range	vs. Medicare
UnitedHealthcaremajor	$1,650 - $4,527	296%
Aetnamajor	$3,018	541%
Cignamajor	$1,751	314%
Humanamajor	$2,817	505%
AvMed	$805 - $2,515	144%
Molina	$1,912 - $2,716	342%
Oscar Health	$1,509	270%
Simply Healthcare	$1,479 - $1,549	265%
+ 11 smaller / regional plans	$473 - $8,049

Excludes 6 rental-network / third-party entries (e.g. Multiplan, PHCS) — these are pricing networks, not insurers.

Self-Pay How to get the cash price

Tell the billing desk you want to be billed as self-pay — not through insurance — before your visit.
Ask for the cash / prompt-pay discount in writing, with the exact price (about 10,061), before you agree to anything.
Get it in writing that they won’t also bill your insurance, so the cash price is what you owe.
Check the CPT code on your bill matches exactly: 93306.

Insurance Before you use insurance

Call your insurance company to confirm HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital is in-network.
Ask your insurer whether prior approval is required for CPT code 93306.
Confirm the doctor or provider is in-network too — not just the hospital building.
Check your Explanation of Benefits against the hospital’s final itemized bill.

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Other Procedures at HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital

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Insurance negotiated median for the same procedure, sorted lowest first.