Reticulocyte direct measurement automated at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$42.40
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.
$53.00
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.
$5.57 with Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare vs $51.91 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_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.63 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.74 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.74 | ↓ -86% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $5.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $5.88 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $5.88 | ↓ -86% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $6.02 | ↓ -86% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $6.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $7.73 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $7.73 | ↓ -82% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $7.73 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $7.73 | ↓ -82% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $7.73 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $8.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $8.63 | ↓ -80% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $8.78 | ↓ -79% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $9.19 | ↓ -78% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $9.75 | ↓ -77% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $16.71 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $16.85 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $16.85 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $16.85 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $20.30 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $21.01 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $23.00 | ↓ -46% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $25.29 | ↓ -40% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $31.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $31.80 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $31.80 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $31.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $36.34 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $41.53 | ↓ -2% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $42.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $44.23 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $51.91 | ↑ +22% |
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Reticulocyte direct measurement automated at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $85.20 | $5.50 – $14.83 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $54.00 | $5.21 – $14.97 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $72.00 | $5.50 – $14.97 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $54.40 | $5.57 – $48.96 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $63.20 | $5.63 – $25.29 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $36.00 | $5.57 – $23.00 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $28.50 | $5.26 – $11.57 |
| WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital | Waynesboro | $54.40 | $5.57 – $36.83 |