Skin Biopsy at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$617.60
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.
$772.00
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.
$40.29 with Health_Partners_Medicaid vs $1,616.00 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 | $40.29 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $40.29 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $40.29 | ↓ -93% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $40.29 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $40.29 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $45.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $109.58 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $196.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $198.24 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $202.17 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $202.17 | ↓ -67% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $206.09 | ↓ -67% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $206.09 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $206.09 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $206.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $207.08 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $207.08 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $207.08 | ↓ -66% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $211.98 | ↓ -66% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $211.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $304.23 | ↓ -51% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $323.86 | ↓ -48% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $343.49 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $360.76 | ↓ -42% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $463.20 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $463.20 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $463.20 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $463.20 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $492.69 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $593.69 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $593.69 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $593.69 | ↓ -4% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $617.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $626.86 | ↑ +1% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $689.40 | ↑ +12% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $715.30 | ↑ +16% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $724.14 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $1,131.20 | ↑ +83% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $1,209.00 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $1,616.00 | ↑ +162% |
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Skin Biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $613.80 | $32.23 – $818.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $381.60 | $33.84 – $572.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $575.40 | $40.93 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $357.60 | $31.88 – $2,094.25 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $658.20 | $35.45 – $152.64 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $575.40 | $40.93 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $823.80 | $35.45 – $204.60 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $98.40 | $35.45 – $422.41 |