Echo stress at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
169 Martin Ave, Ephrata, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1083615587
$1,440.00
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.
$1,800.00
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.
$58.13 with UPMC_Medicaid vs $2,428.36 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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| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $58.13 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $95.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $95.63 | ↓ -93% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $95.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $95.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $108.63 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $260.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $312.58 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $534.85 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $545.44 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $545.44 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $556.03 | ↓ -61% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $556.03 | ↓ -61% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $556.03 | ↓ -61% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $556.03 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $556.03 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $558.41 | ↓ -61% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $558.68 | ↓ -61% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $571.91 | ↓ -60% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $571.91 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $800.37 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $822.13 | ↓ -43% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $873.76 | ↓ -39% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $926.71 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $1,081.23 | ↓ -25% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $1,136.64 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $1,143.39 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $1,143.39 | ↓ -21% |
| Tower Health | All_Plans | $1,154.40 | ↓ -20% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $1,154.40 | ↓ -20% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $1,154.40 | ↓ -20% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $1,154.40 | ↓ -20% |
| Independence_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $1,154.40 | ↓ -20% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $1,243.20 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $1,374.62 | ↓ -5% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $1,511.38 | ↑ +5% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $1,674.77 | ↑ +16% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $1,942.71 | ↑ +35% |
| Highmark | My_Priority_Blue_Flex | $1,942.71 | ↑ +35% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $2,015.52 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $2,015.52 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $2,015.52 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $2,428.36 | ↑ +69% |
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Echo stress at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,335.00 | $46.50 – $1,780.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $966.00 | $80.33 – $1,449.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,737.60 | $60.91 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,737.60 | $60.91 – $981.22 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $696.00 | $84.15 – $957.76 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $626.40 | $84.15 – $937.61 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,737.60 | $60.91 – $981.22 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,782.80 | $84.15 – $937.61 |