Lap sleeve gastrectomy at WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital
1 Hospital Drive, Lewisburg, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1124076039
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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.
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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.
$853.60 with UPMC_Medicaid vs $34,157.00 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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| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $853.60 | — |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $915.68 | — |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Plans | $970.00 | — |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $970.00 | — |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $1,006.86 | — |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $1,008.80 | — |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $1,008.80 | — |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,042.40 | — |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,052.82 | — |
| Humana_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,063.25 | — |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,063.25 | — |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,073.67 | — |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,084.10 | — |
| UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $1,094.52 | — |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,094.52 | — |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $1,094.52 | — |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $1,125.79 | — |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,125.79 | — |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $1,167.49 | — |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $1,563.60 | — |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $1,824.20 | — |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $3,403.12 | — |
| Performance_Blue | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $4,001.77 | — |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $4,446.36 | — |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $4,594.90 | — |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $5,054.60 | — |
| UPMC | All_Plans | $8,787.81 | — |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $34,157.00 | — |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $34,157.00 | — |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | not published by hospital | — |
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Lap sleeve gastrectomy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $1,962.24 – $2,354.95 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $1,354.25 – $9,539.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $1,354.25 – $23,763.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $1,962.24 – $2,354.95 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | not published | $970.00 – $3,544.16 |