Nitroglycerin 50 mg/250 ml (200 mcg/ml) in 5 % dextrose intravenous at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$286.20
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.
$357.75
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.
$1.13 with Blue_Cross vs $28.20 with WellSpan_Capital_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_Cares_4_kids | $1.13 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $1.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $1.49 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $1.49 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $1.49 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $1.49 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $1.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $1.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -98% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $4.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $4.69 | ↓ -98% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $4.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $14.02 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $18.00 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $18.00 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $18.00 | ↓ -94% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $24.00 | ↓ -92% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $28.20 | ↓ -90% |
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Nitroglycerin 50 mg/250 ml (200 mcg/ml) in 5 % dextrose intravenous at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4.00 | $0.67 – $4.23 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $4.00 | $0.94 – $4.50 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $4.00 | $0.60 – $4.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4.00 | $0.67 – $3.51 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4.00 | $0.94 – $1.74 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $4.00 | $0.94 – $1.71 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $4.00 | $0.68 – $1.50 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4.05 | $0.68 – $1.49 |