Transparency in Healthcare
Services may be provided in this health care facility by the facility as well as other health care providers who may separately bill the patient and who may or may not participate with the same health insurers or health maintenance organizations as the facility.
Patients and prospective patients may request from this facility and other health care practitioners a more personalized estimate of charges and other information. Patients and prospective patients should contact each health care practitioner anticipated to provide services to them in the ASC as to provide a personalized estimate, learn the providers billing practices and their participation with the patients insurance provider or health maintenance organization (HMO) as some practitioners may not participate with all the same health insurers or HMOs as the center.
The following providers are contracted with Center for Special Surgery to provide services for patients:
Greater Florida Anesthesia
P.O. Box 17426
Clearwater, FL 33762
Phone: (727) 210-6991
Millenium DME Sales
BC/BS IPG (Implantable Provider Group)
IRL (Integrated Regional Labs) – Pathology
Patients may find information regarding service bundles in Florida at http://pricing.floridahealthfinder.gov.
A service bundle means the reasonably expected center services and care provided to a patient for a specific treatment, procedure, or diagnosis as posted on the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s website. The service bundle information is a non-personalized estimate of costs that may be incurred by the patient for anticipated services. Actual costs will be based on services actually provided to the patient.
Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in certain health programs or activities. Section 1557 builds on long-standing and familiar Federal civil rights laws: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975.
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Patient Rights and Responsibilities
Center for Special Surgery
4650 4th Street North
St. Petersburg, FL 33703
Tel: (727) 527-1919
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
