Ultrasound elastography parenchyma at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
169 Martin Ave, Ephrata, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1083615587
$249.60
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.
$312.00
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.
$53.17 with Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid vs $602.31 with United_Healthcare — 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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| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $53.17 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $54.91 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $79.76 | ↓ -68% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $102.70 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $103.73 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $105.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $105.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $107.84 | ↓ -57% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $107.84 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $107.84 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $107.84 | ↓ -57% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $107.84 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $108.30 | ↓ -57% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $108.35 | ↓ -57% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $110.92 | ↓ -56% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $110.92 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $140.61 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $159.44 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $168.48 | ↓ -33% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $169.46 | ↓ -32% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $179.73 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $200.87 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $200.87 | ↓ -20% |
| Tower Health | All_Plans | $202.80 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $202.80 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $202.80 | ↓ -19% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $202.80 | ↓ -19% |
| Independence_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $202.80 | ↓ -19% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $208.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $218.40 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $241.49 | ↓ -3% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $265.51 | ↑ +6% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $376.77 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | My_Priority_Blue_Flex | $376.77 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $390.89 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $390.89 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $390.89 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $470.95 | ↑ +89% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $602.31 | ↑ +141% |
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Ultrasound elastography parenchyma at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $202.20 | $46.17 – $286.45 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $202.20 | $67.40 – $533.90 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $202.20 | $85.41 – $533.90 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $202.20 | $85.41 – $533.90 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $202.20 | $36.78 – $533.90 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $202.20 | $44.68 – $126.08 |
| WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital | Lebanon | $249.60 | $56.16 – $602.31 |
| WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital | Gettysburg | $249.60 | $53.17 – $602.31 |