Vitamin b-12 at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
252 S. 4th St., Lebanon, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1407928500
$40.00
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.
$78.00
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.
$15.08 with Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare vs $140.18 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 | $15.08 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $15.23 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $15.53 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $15.53 | ↓ -61% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $15.83 | ↓ -60% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $15.83 | ↓ -60% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $15.83 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $15.90 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $15.91 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $15.91 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $15.91 | ↓ -60% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $16.25 | ↓ -59% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $16.25 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $16.25 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $16.25 | ↓ -59% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $16.25 | ↓ -59% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $16.29 | ↓ -59% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $16.29 | ↓ -59% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $18.46 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $22.01 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $23.37 | ↓ -42% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $24.88 | ↓ -38% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $26.39 | ↓ -34% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $41.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $44.20 | ↑ +11% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $45.24 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $45.61 | ↑ +14% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $45.61 | ↑ +14% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $45.61 | ↑ +14% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $46.80 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $46.80 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $46.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $54.96 | ↑ +37% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $62.28 | ↑ +56% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $62.40 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $65.10 | ↑ +63% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $68.46 | ↑ +71% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $98.13 | ↑ +145% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Cross_Healthy_Benefits_PPO | $112.15 | ↑ +180% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $140.18 | ↑ +250% |
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Vitamin b-12 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $108.60 | $13.00 – $144.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $75.00 | $5.44 – $112.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $76.80 | $13.00 – $108.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $105.00 | $9.80 – $140.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $76.80 | $13.00 – $93.50 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $225.60 | $13.00 – $300.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $192.00 | $13.00 – $29.13 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $89.40 | $13.68 – $16.29 |