Repair tongue lac <2.5cm past 1/3 tongue 41251 at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$390.40
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.
$488.00
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.
$39.38 with Health_Partners_Medicaid vs $3,432.00 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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| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $39.38 | ↓ -90% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $39.38 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $39.38 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $39.38 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $39.38 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $44.73 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $107.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $229.39 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $231.68 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $236.27 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $236.27 | ↓ -39% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $240.86 | ↓ -38% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $240.86 | ↓ -38% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $240.86 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $241.89 | ↓ -38% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $242.01 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $242.01 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $242.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $247.74 | ↓ -37% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $247.74 | ↓ -37% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $292.80 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $292.80 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $292.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $292.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $311.44 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $355.55 | ↓ -9% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $378.49 | ↓ -3% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $390.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $396.26 | ↑ +2% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $401.43 | ↑ +3% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $435.78 | ↑ +12% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $457.74 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $693.84 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $693.84 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $693.84 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $835.97 | ↑ +114% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $2,402.40 | ↑ +515% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $2,571.00 | ↑ +559% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $2,745.60 | ↑ +603% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $3,432.00 | ↑ +779% |
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Repair tongue lac <2.5cm past 1/3 tongue 41251 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,050.60 | $40.01 – $1,488.35 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,050.60 | $40.01 – $2,297.57 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,050.60 | $40.01 – $645.83 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,050.60 | $40.01 – $645.83 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,050.60 | $40.01 – $645.83 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,050.60 | $34.65 – $566.95 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $309.00 | $34.65 – $476.82 |
| WellSpan Newberry Hospital | Etters | not published | not published |