Financial Information

The Cardiac & Vascular Institute Ambulatory Surgery Center is committed to helping our patients receive the care they need. We accept Medicare, Medicaid and most forms of Commercial Insurance. Our business office team will be glad to submit the claim to your insurance provider.

All co-payments, co-insurances, and deductibles if they are not met are due at the time of service.

You may request an estimate of charges prior to your procedure. If you have any questions regarding your insurance coverage, please contact The Cardiac & Vascular Institute Ambulatory Surgery Center to ensure that your insurance is in network with our surgery center.

Billing Department (352) 375-1212

Below you’ll find a link to the Florida Health Price Finder. Please note the information you find here is a non-personalized estimate of costs that may be incurred for services and your actual costs may differ dependent on the services you actually receive.

Florida Health Price Finder

Acceptable Forms of Payment

Please contact the Cardiac & Vascular Institute Ambulatory Surgery Center at to ensure that your insurance is in network with our surgery center.

Your Co-Payments

All co-payments, co-insurances, and deductibles if they are not met are due at the time of service.

For payment arrangements, feel free to contact our Business Office - Insurance Verification Dept.

Financial Assistance

Our financial assistance program offers a variety of ways to reduce a patient’s financial responsibility for services rendered by the surgery center. Our program structures a balance between offering the patient a reduced financial liability while still complying with insurance contract obligations and Federal and state regulations. Please contact our facility’s business office for further information on our policies as reflected below. Surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other service providers (such as pathologists or laboratories) bill for their services separately from the surgery center and may offer their own financial assistance program—please contact them for further information regarding their services.

Application Process

You may request the facility to provide details for any of the elements within the financial assistance program. Certain policies have an application process requiring the patient to submit additional financial and household information to determine qualification of the available assistance.

Payment Plans

Each patient is expected to pay his/her estimated financial liability on or before the day of service. In the event a patient is unable to pay the estimated liability in full, our surgery center may offer a short term repayment schedule after a minimum down payment is made. For an extended repayment schedule, a patient may need to secure financing with an outside source. Please consult with our surgery center’s business office for further information.

Out of Network

A patient receiving treatment at our surgery center under insurance with which our facility is out of network may be eligible to receive an adjustment to their assigned out of network patient liability, assuming our facility is not prohibited from offering Out of Network adjustments under state/Federal laws or your insurance company’s provisions. If not prohibited, the application of any out of network discount is subject to vary based on a patient’s benefit coverage. Accounts which become delinquent may have the adjustment disallowed.

Collection Procedures

As a courtesy to our patients, we will file an insurance claim on behalf of the patient to his/her insurance plan. A patient is expected to respond to his/her insurance plan’s request for information timely, as needed, in order to minimize processing delays with the claim.
Patients are expected to pay their financial obligations in a timely manner including the estimated portion by the day services are received, and any remaining portion upon finalization of the claim by the payer. Unpaid claims by the payer may result in the account’s outstanding balance being fully transferred to the patient for collection.
If needed, the center will attempt to reach a patient by any method available to us to secure payment on the outstanding balance utilizing internal and external resources. If the account becomes delinquent, it may be placed with an attorney or agency for collection in which their fees and expenses may be the obligation of the patient.

Other Providers

During your procedure at the surgery center you may receive care and services from credentialed and/or contracted staff from The Cardiac and Vascular Institute.  Although these services are a part of your care, you may receive a separate bill for these services in addition to bills generated from the surgery center.  You may contact TCAVI directly to inquire about their participation with insurance plans and to request and estimate of the charges you anticipated while in our surgery center.

The billing office for TCAVI may be reached at 352-375-1212.

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