Breath recording infant at UPMC Lititz

1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$1,793.40

Cash price

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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.

$2,989.00

Gross charge

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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.

$172.92 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,540.65 with Multiplan — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $172.92 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $279.40 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $279.40 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $286.00 ↓ -84%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $299.64 ↓ -83%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $320.45 ↓ -82%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $400.53 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $504.52 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare $531.53 ↓ -70%
Geisinger Medicare $535.10 ↓ -70%
Cigna Medicare $535.10 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Medicare $545.29 ↓ -70%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $597.80 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $597.80 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Commercial $613.00 ↓ -66%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $618.80 ↓ -65%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $672.70 ↓ -62%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $815.39 ↓ -55%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $1,108.92 ↓ -38%
Prime Net ACO $1,117.89 ↓ -38%
Aetna ACO $1,117.89 ↓ -38%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $1,321.14 ↓ -26%
Prime Net GateKeeper $1,330.11 ↓ -26%
Aetna Commercial $1,330.11 ↓ -26%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1,402.14 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $1,402.14 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $1,402.14 ↓ -22%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Children's Health Insurance $1,506.54 ↓ -16%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $1,568.71 ↓ -13%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $1,602.96 ↓ -11%
Preferred Healthcare System Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry $1,643.95 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Commercial $1,957.20 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,092.30 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $2,164.04 ↑ +21%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $2,241.75 ↑ +25%
Cigna Commercial $2,331.42 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $2,540.65 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Breath recording infant at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,793.40 $172.92 – $2,540.65
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,793.40 $172.92 – $2,540.65
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,793.40 $172.92 – $811.01
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,164.00 $198.59 – $642.80
UPMC Memorial York $1,793.40 $160.33 – $814.06
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,793.40 $151.80 – $642.80

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