Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$1,276.80
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.
$1,596.00
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.
$23.23 with Health_Partners_Medicaid vs $3,432.00 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 |
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| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $23.23 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $23.23 | ↓ -98% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $23.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $23.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $23.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $26.38 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $63.17 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $957.60 | ↓ -25% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $957.60 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $957.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $957.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $1,018.57 | ↓ -20% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $1,276.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $1,295.95 | ↑ +1% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $1,425.23 | ↑ +12% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $1,497.05 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $2,402.40 | ↑ +88% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $2,571.00 | ↑ +101% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $2,745.60 | ↑ +115% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $3,432.00 | ↑ +169% |
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Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $544.20 | $16.12 – $725.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $383.40 | $19.51 – $575.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $418.20 | $21.12 – $1,907.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $105.60 | $19.51 – $242.77 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $418.20 | $6.20 – $556.23 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $596.40 | $20.44 – $795.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $500.40 | $20.44 – $242.77 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $418.20 | $21.12 – $1,907.00 |