Ultrasound guidance for vascular access at WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital
1 Hospital Drive, Lewisburg, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1124076039
$644.20
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.
$805.25
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.
$28.08 with UPMC_Medicaid vs $268.56 with UPMC — 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 | $28.08 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $30.13 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $30.89 | ↓ -95% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Plans | $31.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $31.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $33.13 | ↓ -95% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $33.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $111.22 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $158.88 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC | All_Plans | $268.56 | ↓ -58% |
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Ultrasound guidance for vascular access at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $153.60 | $12.62 – $204.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $133.20 | $26.81 – $199.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $663.60 | $16.53 – $940.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $239.40 | $26.81 – $319.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $663.60 | $16.53 – $374.85 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $327.00 | $28.08 – $436.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $468.00 | $28.08 – $79.72 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $254.40 | $28.08 – $92.72 |