Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe clostridium difficile toxin gene(s) at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$154.40
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.
$193.00
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.
$30.43 with Blue_Cross vs $320.17 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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| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $30.43 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $37.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $38.39 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $38.39 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $39.13 | ↓ -75% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $39.13 | ↓ -75% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $39.13 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $39.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $39.32 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $39.32 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $39.32 | ↓ -75% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $40.25 | ↓ -74% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $40.25 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $50.28 | ↓ -67% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $50.28 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $50.28 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $50.28 | ↓ -67% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $50.28 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $57.11 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $57.77 | ↓ -63% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $61.50 | ↓ -60% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $65.22 | ↓ -58% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $111.81 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $112.73 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $112.73 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $112.73 | ↓ -27% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $115.80 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $115.80 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $115.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $115.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $135.82 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $136.75 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $153.93 | ↓ -0% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $154.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $161.08 | ↑ +4% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $169.21 | ↑ +10% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $224.12 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $256.14 | ↑ +66% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $320.17 | ↑ +107% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe clostridium difficile toxin gene(s) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $349.80 | $36.84 – $466.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $580.80 | $13.45 – $871.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $207.60 | $36.90 – $294.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $163.80 | $24.23 – $218.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $207.60 | $36.90 – $294.10 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $350.40 | $36.84 – $467.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $293.40 | $36.84 – $93.44 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $547.80 | $33.80 – $46.25 |