Echo guide for artery repair at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$1,456.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$1,820.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$25.32 with Blue_Cross vs $1,719.60 with United_Healthcare — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $25.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $236.80 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $236.80 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $236.80 | ↓ -84% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $236.80 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $236.80 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $269.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $307.61 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $310.69 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $316.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $316.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $322.99 | ↓ -78% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $322.99 | ↓ -78% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $322.99 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $324.37 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $324.53 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $324.53 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $324.53 | ↓ -78% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $332.22 | ↓ -77% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $332.22 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $404.87 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $462.71 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $476.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $507.56 | ↓ -65% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $538.32 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $578.39 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $644.10 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $930.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $930.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $930.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $947.13 | ↓ -35% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $1,092.00 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $1,092.00 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $1,092.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $1,092.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $1,121.02 | ↓ -23% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $1,456.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $1,477.84 | ↑ +2% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $1,625.26 | ↑ +12% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $1,719.60 | ↑ +18% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Echo guide for artery repair at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $775.80 | $88.25 – $1,034.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $539.40 | $115.61 – $764.15 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $539.40 | $115.61 – $1,118.04 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $939.00 | $208.38 – $772.43 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $539.40 | $115.61 – $746.85 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $676.80 | $208.38 – $775.20 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $539.40 | $115.61 – $734.40 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,748.40 | $208.38 – $772.43 |