Augumentation percutaneous vertebral including cavity creation 1 vertebral body thoracic at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$11,607.20
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.
$14,509.00
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.
$546.80 with Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid vs $38,065.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $546.80 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,056.72 | ↓ -39% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $7,056.72 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,127.29 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,268.42 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,268.42 | ↓ -37% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,409.56 | ↓ -36% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,409.56 | ↓ -36% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $7,409.56 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,441.31 | ↓ -36% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $7,444.84 | ↓ -36% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,444.84 | ↓ -36% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $7,444.84 | ↓ -36% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $7,621.26 | ↓ -34% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $7,621.26 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $8,125.04 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $8,705.40 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $8,705.40 | ↓ -25% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $8,705.40 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $8,705.40 | ↓ -25% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $8,937.54 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $9,259.64 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $10,937.92 | ↓ -6% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $11,607.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $11,643.59 | ↑ +0% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $12,349.26 | ↑ +6% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $13,609.44 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $21,344.46 | ↑ +84% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $21,344.46 | ↑ +84% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $21,344.46 | ↑ +84% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $25,716.80 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $26,645.50 | ↑ +130% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $28,500.00 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $30,452.00 | ↑ +162% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $38,065.00 | ↑ +228% |
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Augumentation percutaneous vertebral including cavity creation 1 vertebral body thoracic at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $10,234.20 | $4,701.43 – $13,645.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $17,435.40 | $1,016.56 – $24,700.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $928.80 | $429.11 – $9,494.01 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $17,602.20 | $1,016.56 – $24,700.15 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $24,271.80 | $4,746.19 – $32,362.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $17,721.00 | $4,701.43 – $9,905.66 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $17,435.40 | $1,016.56 – $11,433.07 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $17,435.40 | $1,016.56 – $11,433.07 |