Consultation/report referred slides prepared elsewhere at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$143.20
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.
$179.00
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.
$38.77 with Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare vs $493.09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $38.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $39.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $39.93 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $39.93 | ↓ -72% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $40.71 | ↓ -72% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $40.71 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $40.71 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $40.88 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $40.90 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $40.90 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $40.90 | ↓ -71% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $41.87 | ↓ -71% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $41.87 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $54.74 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $60.09 | ↓ -58% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $63.97 | ↓ -55% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $67.85 | ↓ -53% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $107.40 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $107.40 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $107.40 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $107.40 | ↓ -25% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $114.63 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $117.27 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $117.27 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $117.27 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $141.29 | ↓ -1% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $143.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $149.39 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $334.90 | ↑ +134% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $345.16 | ↑ +141% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $368.15 | ↑ +157% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $394.47 | ↑ +175% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $493.09 | ↑ +244% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Consultation/report referred slides prepared elsewhere at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $298.20 | $38.16 – $397.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $78.60 | $17.95 – $139.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $336.60 | $53.00 – $448.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $163.20 | $26.20 – $162.74 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $342.00 | $12.71 – $137.12 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $78.60 | $37.12 – $162.74 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $204.00 | $33.50 – $131.19 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $210.00 | $12.71 – $407.30 |