Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital

252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 17, 2026

$27.00

Cash price

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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.

$33.75

Gross charge

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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.

$6.64 with Blue_Cross vs $29.25 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Blue_Cross Capital_Cares_4_kids $6.64 ↓ -75%
UPMC_Medicaid All_Plans $8.44 ↓ -69%
Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid All_Plans $8.75 ↓ -68%
Health_Partners_Medicaid All_Other_Plans $8.75 ↓ -68%
Geisinger_Medicaid All_Plans $8.75 ↓ -68%
Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid All_Plans $8.75 ↓ -68%
Blue_Cross All_Other_Plans $9.49 ↓ -65%
Blue_Cross Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO $9.49 ↓ -65%
Blue_Cross Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO $15.77 ↓ -42%
WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross All_Plans $20.25 ↓ -25%
UPMC Employees_And_Dependents $20.25 ↓ -25%
UPMC UPMC_For_Kids $20.25 ↓ -25%
Geisinger All_Plans $20.25 ↓ -25%
Cigna All_Plans $23.24 ↓ -14%
United_Healthcare All_Plans $26.02 ↓ -4%
Aetna All_Plans $26.59 ↓ -2%
PHC All_Plans $27.00 ↑ +0%
First_Health_Network All_Plans $29.25 ↑ +8%

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Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1.80 $0.14 – $10.48
UPMC Cole Coudersport $3.60 $1.66 – $4.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1.80 $0.20 – $10.76
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1.80 $8.75 – $52.18
UPMC Lititz Lititz $1.80 $8.75 – $52.18
UPMC Memorial York $1.80 $1.14 – $52.18
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1.80 $1.38 – $8.75
WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital Ephrata $27.20 $2.18 – $26.02

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