Implant neuroelectrodes at WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital
1 Hospital Drive, Lewisburg, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1124076039
$19,865.00
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.
$24,831.25
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.
$157.40 with Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare vs $24,338.00 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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| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $157.40 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC | All_Plans | $3,132.86 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana_Medicare | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $6,313.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $6,338.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Performance_Blue | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $6,338.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Plans | $6,338.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $6,338.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $6,338.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $17,036.60 | ↓ -14% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $24,111.14 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $24,338.00 | ↑ +23% |
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Implant neuroelectrodes at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,015.00 | $545.04 – $6,882.63 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,177.20 | $550.23 – $6,882.63 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,355.80 | $662.09 – $6,757.50 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $11,147.20 | $157.40 – $428.13 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $3,621.50 | $245.77 – $12,829.77 |