Intro cath svc/ivc at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
169 Martin Ave, Ephrata, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1083615587
$1,604.80
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.
$2,006.00
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.
$143.13 with Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid 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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| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $143.13 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $143.13 | ↓ -91% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $143.13 | ↓ -91% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $143.13 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $143.13 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $162.59 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $353.06 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $389.30 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $904.02 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $1,221.25 | ↓ -24% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $1,283.84 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $1,291.46 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $1,291.46 | ↓ -20% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $1,303.90 | ↓ -19% |
| Independence_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $1,303.90 | ↓ -19% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $1,303.90 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $1,303.90 | ↓ -19% |
| Tower Health | All_Plans | $1,303.90 | ↓ -19% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $1,404.20 | ↓ -13% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $1,891.66 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $5,627.00 | ↑ +251% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $6,190.00 | ↑ +286% |
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Intro cath svc/ivc at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,670.20 | $114.50 – $4,893.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,403.60 | $145.41 – $9,539.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,426.40 | $145.41 – $6,734.26 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $6,828.00 | $125.95 – $9,104.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $6,967.80 | $125.95 – $1,631.43 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,403.60 | $145.41 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $3,847.80 | $115.83 – $1,660.22 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $2,403.60 | $115.83 – $1,016.56 |