Insertion/replacement temporary single chamber electrode/pacemaker catheter at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$21,556.00
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$26,945.00
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.
$206.13 with Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid vs $29,792.81 with Highmark — 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 | $206.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $206.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $206.13 | ↓ -99% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $206.13 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $206.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $234.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $6,420.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,175.18 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,256.93 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,420.44 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,420.44 | ↓ -61% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,583.94 | ↓ -60% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $8,583.94 | ↓ -60% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,583.94 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,620.73 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,624.81 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $8,624.81 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $8,624.81 | ↓ -60% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $8,829.19 | ↓ -59% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $8,829.19 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $12,006.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $12,671.53 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $12,828.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $13,489.05 | ↓ -37% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $14,306.57 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $15,089.20 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $16,035.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $16,167.00 | ↓ -25% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $16,167.00 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $16,167.00 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $16,167.00 | ↓ -25% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $16,598.12 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $17,196.30 | ↓ -20% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $21,556.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $24,727.47 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $24,727.47 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $24,727.47 | ↑ +15% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $25,274.41 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $26,645.50 | ↑ +24% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $29,792.81 | ↑ +38% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,361.40 | $164.90 – $5,815.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $11,583.60 | $209.42 – $16,410.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,987.80 | $173.15 – $1,192.92 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $11,583.60 | $209.42 – $16,410.10 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,355.40 | $181.39 – $8,284.66 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,607.40 | $181.39 – $11,475.67 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $11,583.60 | $209.42 – $12,649.66 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $8,250.60 | $181.39 – $10,651.70 |