Immunofluorescence per specimen initial single antibody stain at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$55.20
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.
$69.00
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.
$24.25 with Blue_Cross vs $657.80 with First_Health_Network — 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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| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $24.25 | ↓ -56% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $31.88 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $31.88 | ↓ -42% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $31.88 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $31.88 | ↓ -42% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $31.88 | ↓ -42% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $36.21 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $41.40 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $41.40 | ↓ -25% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $41.40 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $41.40 | ↓ -25% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $55.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $57.59 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $86.70 | ↑ +57% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $169.27 | ↑ +207% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $170.96 | ↑ +210% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $174.35 | ↑ +216% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $174.35 | ↑ +216% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $177.73 | ↑ +222% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $177.73 | ↑ +222% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $177.73 | ↑ +222% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $178.50 | ↑ +223% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $178.58 | ↑ +224% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $178.58 | ↑ +224% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $178.58 | ↑ +224% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $182.81 | ↑ +231% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $182.81 | ↑ +231% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $234.02 | ↑ +324% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $262.37 | ↑ +375% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $267.45 | ↑ +385% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $279.30 | ↑ +406% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $296.22 | ↑ +437% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $334.31 | ↑ +506% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $488.22 | ↑ +784% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $511.99 | ↑ +828% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $511.99 | ↑ +828% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $511.99 | ↑ +828% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $598.40 | ↑ +984% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $616.87 | ↑ +1018% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $657.80 | ↑ +1092% |
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Immunofluorescence per specimen initial single antibody stain at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $415.80 | $15.30 – $554.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $664.80 | $20.04 – $941.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $181.20 | $26.77 – $241.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $664.80 | $20.04 – $180.36 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $153.00 | $17.39 – $204.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $347.40 | $19.63 – $420.75 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $108.00 | $17.55 – $171.54 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $664.80 | $20.04 – $261.92 |