Assay of urine sulfate at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$22.40
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.
$28.00
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.
$5.04 with Aetna_Better_Health_Kids vs $44.14 with Blue_Cross — 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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| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $5.04 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.49 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.54 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.65 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.65 | ↓ -75% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.76 | ↓ -74% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.76 | ↓ -74% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $5.76 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $5.79 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.79 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $5.79 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.79 | ↓ -74% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.93 | ↓ -74% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $5.93 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $6.93 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $8.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $9.06 | ↓ -60% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $9.61 | ↓ -57% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $16.47 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $16.61 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $16.61 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $16.61 | ↓ -26% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $16.80 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $16.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $16.80 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $16.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $20.01 | ↓ -11% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $22.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $22.67 | ↑ +1% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $23.37 | ↑ +4% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $24.92 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $30.90 | ↑ +38% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $35.31 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $44.14 | ↑ +97% |
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Assay of urine sulfate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $35.40 | $5.43 – $47.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $80.40 | $1.98 – $120.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $27.60 | $3.02 – $39.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $27.60 | $4.39 – $28.05 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $99.60 | $5.43 – $132.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $72.60 | $5.43 – $12.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $43.80 | $4.98 – $5.93 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $27.60 | $4.39 – $27.50 |