C-kit mutation liquid tumor - sendout at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
169 Martin Ave, Ephrata, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1083615587
$876.80
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.
$1,096.00
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.
$192.90 with Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare vs $1,511.03 with Highmark — 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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| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $192.90 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $263.61 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $329.51 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $329.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $329.51 | ↓ -62% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $329.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $329.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $332.81 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $339.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $339.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $345.99 | ↓ -61% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $345.99 | ↓ -61% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $345.99 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $345.99 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $345.99 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $347.47 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $347.63 | ↓ -60% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $355.87 | ↓ -59% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $355.87 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $493.92 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $511.56 | ↓ -42% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $543.69 | ↓ -38% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $576.64 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $699.47 | ↓ -20% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $701.44 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $705.60 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $705.60 | ↓ -20% |
| Tower Health | All_Plans | $712.40 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $712.40 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $712.40 | ↓ -19% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $712.40 | ↓ -19% |
| Independence_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $712.40 | ↓ -19% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $767.20 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $896.27 | ↑ +2% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $988.53 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $1,208.84 | ↑ +38% |
| Highmark | My_Priority_Blue_Flex | $1,208.84 | ↑ +38% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $1,254.15 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $1,254.15 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $1,254.15 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $1,360.88 | ↑ +55% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $1,495.98 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $1,511.03 | ↑ +72% |
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C-kit mutation liquid tumor - sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,723.60 | $230.27 – $4,964.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $4,054.80 | $118.89 – $6,082.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,123.20 | $53.00 – $1,497.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,054.80 | $289.97 – $355.87 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $4,054.80 | $234.33 – $355.87 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4,054.80 | $232.46 – $449.24 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,055.40 | $232.46 – $378.68 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,054.80 | $232.46 – $410.36 |