Echo transesophageal intraop at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$3,743.20
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.
$4,679.00
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.
$411.23 with Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid vs $4,388.90 with United_Healthcare — 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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| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $411.23 | ↓ -89% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $541.62 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $780.44 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $788.24 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $803.85 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $803.85 | ↓ -79% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $819.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $819.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $819.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $822.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $823.36 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $823.36 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $823.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $842.22 | ↓ -78% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $842.88 | ↓ -77% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $842.88 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $1,209.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $1,287.73 | ↓ -66% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $1,365.77 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $2,360.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $2,360.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $2,360.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $2,402.40 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $2,571.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $2,745.60 | ↓ -27% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $2,807.40 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $2,807.40 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $2,807.40 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $2,807.40 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $2,844.16 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $2,986.14 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $3,432.00 | ↓ -8% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $3,743.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $3,799.35 | ↑ +2% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $4,178.35 | ↑ +12% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $4,388.90 | ↑ +17% |
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Echo transesophageal intraop at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,142.60 | $224.30 – $2,856.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,737.60 | $288.48 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,737.60 | $402.05 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,853.60 | $224.30 – $714.96 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,737.60 | $402.05 – $842.59 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,978.20 | $226.44 – $575.01 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,737.60 | $182.82 – $841.22 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,142.60 | $392.84 – $392.84 |