Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$5.00
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.
$15.00
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.
$2.70 with Aetna_Better_Health_Kids vs $256.42 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 | $2.70 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $3.00 | ↓ -40% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $5.00 | ↑ +0% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $9.00 | ↑ +80% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $9.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $9.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.09 | ↑ +82% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $9.09 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.18 | ↑ +84% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.36 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.36 | ↑ +87% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $9.54 | ↑ +91% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.54 | ↑ +91% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.54 | ↑ +91% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $9.59 | ↑ +92% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $9.59 | ↑ +92% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.59 | ↑ +92% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.59 | ↑ +92% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $9.82 | ↑ +96% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $9.82 | ↑ +96% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $12.00 | ↑ +140% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $12.52 | ↑ +150% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $13.37 | ↑ +167% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $14.09 | ↑ +182% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $15.00 | ↑ +200% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $15.29 | ↑ +206% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $15.60 | ↑ +212% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $15.91 | ↑ +218% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $17.14 | ↑ +243% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $19.11 | ↑ +282% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $26.49 | ↑ +430% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $27.49 | ↑ +450% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $27.49 | ↑ +450% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $27.49 | ↑ +450% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $33.13 | ↑ +563% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $256.42 | ↑ +5028% |
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Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $20.40 | $0.02 – $27.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $7.80 | $0.05 – $11.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $7.80 | $1.78 – $14.54 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $18.00 | $1.95 – $23.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $7.80 | $0.07 – $11.05 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $15.60 | $0.02 – $20.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $22.80 | $0.02 – $9.82 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $10.20 | $0.05 – $9.82 |