Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
169 Martin Ave, Ephrata, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1083615587
$22.20
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.
$27.75
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.
$2.04 with Health_Partners_Medicaid vs $19.25 with PHC — 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 |
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| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $2.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $2.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $2.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $2.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $2.16 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $2.71 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $6.19 | ↓ -72% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $6.81 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $7.77 | ↓ -65% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $8.35 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $12.39 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $17.70 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $17.70 | ↓ -20% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $17.76 | ↓ -20% |
| Tower Health | All_Plans | $17.88 | ↓ -19% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $17.88 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $17.88 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $17.88 | ↓ -19% |
| Independence_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $17.88 | ↓ -19% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $19.25 | ↓ -13% |
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Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $20.40 | $1.29 – $41.86 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $136.00 | $1.29 – $153.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $6.00 | $0.14 – $3.67 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $7.20 | $2.04 – $9.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $6.00 | $0.20 – $69.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $249.60 | $1.29 – $249.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $313.60 | $1.29 – $7.08 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $319.20 | $1.29 – $108.64 |