Spinal puncture lumbar diagnostic w/fluoroscopic or CT guidance at WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital
147 Gettys Street, Gettysburg, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1265466957
$1,096.80
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.
$1,371.00
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.
$91.73 with Health_Partners_Medicaid vs $4,143.81 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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| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $91.73 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $91.73 | ↓ -92% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $91.73 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $91.73 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $91.73 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $104.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $249.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Johns_Hopkins_HealthCare_Plan | Johns_Hopkins_US_Family_Health | $709.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $709.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $716.27 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $730.46 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $730.46 | ↓ -33% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $744.64 | ↓ -32% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $744.64 | ↓ -32% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $744.64 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $747.83 | ↓ -32% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $748.18 | ↓ -32% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $765.91 | ↓ -30% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $765.91 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $769.27 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $769.54 | ↓ -30% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $780.10 | ↓ -29% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $854.92 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $854.92 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $1,063.77 | ↓ -3% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $1,096.80 | ↑ +0% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $1,096.80 | ↑ +0% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $1,096.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $1,099.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $1,233.21 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $1,239.38 | ↑ +13% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $1,241.07 | ↑ +13% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $1,253.09 | ↑ +14% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $1,261.32 | ↑ +15% |
| Johns_Hopkins_HealthCare_Plan | All_Other_Plans | $1,275.03 | ↑ +16% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $1,298.34 | ↑ +18% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $1,302.45 | ↑ +19% |
| Highmark | My_Priority_Blue_Flex | $2,486.24 | ↑ +127% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $2,486.24 | ↑ +127% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $3,315.06 | ↑ +202% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $3,315.06 | ↑ +202% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $3,315.06 | ↑ +202% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $4,143.81 | ↑ +278% |
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Spinal puncture lumbar diagnostic w/fluoroscopic or CT guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,360.20 | $73.38 – $1,813.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,461.20 | $93.19 – $3,486.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $126.00 | $58.21 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,461.20 | $93.19 – $3,486.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,439.40 | $80.72 – $1,919.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,505.40 | $80.72 – $960.26 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,439.40 | $80.72 – $693.24 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,461.20 | $93.19 – $1,058.50 |