HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital

Standing among Port St. Lucie hospitals. The comparison covers 7 procedures, using each hospital's lowest valid cash price. Three sit above the Port St. Lucie median and none sit below it. Four are near the median (within 5%). The labels are: MRI is 11% above median ($7,845 at HCA St. Lucie), ultrasound is 44% above median ($4,793), and lab work is 101% above median ($3,457). Echocardiogram, ER visit, chest X-ray and CT scan are each near median.

How cash compares with insured rates. HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital publishes cash prices equal to its gross charges, so no separate self-pay discount appears in its file. Cash is 100% of gross on every row that has both values. Of the 12 rows with a cash price, none is below every insured rate, 3 fall within the insured range (all ER visit levels), and 9 are above every insured rate. The file lists 1,521 insurer rate entries from 43 payer names.

Questions to take to the billing office.

• Quote the billing code, such as 70551 for an MRI brain scan or 99284 for a Level 4 ER visit, and ask for the cash or self-pay price and an itemized estimate.
• Ask what the quote includes and what it leaves out, such as contrast, supplies or facility fees.
• Ask whether separate professional bills apply, for example a radiologist reading an MRI, CT or ultrasound, or an ER physician for an emergency visit. These may be billed apart from the hospital's facility charge.

Zeros, blanks and file timing. Five rows carry a data note because a gross charge or cash price was published as $0 or blank: screening colonoscopy, colonoscopy with biopsy, complete blood count, cesarean delivery and total knee replacement. A $0 or blank means the data is missing, not that the service is free. No values were left out as likely file errors. The file was updated 2026-09-01 and accessed by us 2026-10-12.