Injection radioactive tracer sentinel node (both sides) at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
169 Martin Ave, Ephrata, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1083615587
$740.80
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.
$926.00
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.
$162.98 with Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare vs $6,190.00 with First_Health_Network — 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 | $162.98 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $200.92 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $301.37 | ↓ -59% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $388.09 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $391.97 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $399.73 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $399.73 | ↓ -46% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $407.49 | ↓ -45% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $407.49 | ↓ -45% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $407.49 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $407.49 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $407.49 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $409.24 | ↓ -45% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $409.43 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $417.31 | ↓ -44% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $419.14 | ↓ -43% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $419.14 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $563.75 | ↓ -24% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $592.64 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $596.16 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $596.16 | ↓ -20% |
| Tower Health | All_Plans | $601.90 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $601.90 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $601.90 | ↓ -19% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $601.90 | ↓ -19% |
| Independence_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $601.90 | ↓ -19% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $602.51 | ↓ -19% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $640.35 | ↓ -14% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $648.20 | ↓ -13% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $679.16 | ↓ -8% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $873.22 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $1,423.75 | ↑ +92% |
| Highmark | My_Priority_Blue_Flex | $1,423.75 | ↑ +92% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $1,477.11 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $1,477.11 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $1,477.11 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $1,779.66 | ↑ +140% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $5,627.00 | ↑ +660% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $6,190.00 | ↑ +736% |
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Injection radioactive tracer sentinel node (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $483.60 | $68.42 – $644.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $837.60 | $191.25 – $1,186.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $80.40 | $37.14 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $837.60 | $279.20 – $1,439.54 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $389.40 | $69.07 – $519.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,941.00 | $68.42 – $557.18 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $837.60 | $310.59 – $1,439.54 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $672.00 | $69.63 – $517.18 |