Echo guide for artery repair 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

$539.40

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.

$899.00

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.

$115.61 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,330.16 with Cigna — 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 $115.61 ↓ -79%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $120.47 ↓ -78%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $179.80 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $179.80 ↓ -67%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $240.59 ↓ -55%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $240.59 ↓ -55%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $246.27 ↓ -54%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $258.02 ↓ -52%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $275.94 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $296.10 ↓ -45%
Aetna Medicare $311.95 ↓ -42%
Geisinger Medicare $314.04 ↓ -42%
Cigna Medicare $314.04 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Medicare $320.03 ↓ -41%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $333.53 ↓ -38%
Prime Net ACO $336.23 ↓ -38%
Aetna ACO $336.23 ↓ -38%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $397.36 ↓ -26%
Prime Net GateKeeper $400.06 ↓ -26%
Aetna Commercial $400.06 ↓ -26%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $421.72 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $421.72 ↓ -22%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $421.72 ↓ -22%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $478.54 ↓ -11%
Preferred Healthcare System Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry $494.45 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Commercial $588.67 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $629.30 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $650.88 ↑ +21%
United Healthcare Commercial $661.66 ↑ +23%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $674.25 ↑ +25%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $734.40 ↑ +36%
Premier Comp Solutions Worker's Comp $734.40 ↑ +36%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $764.15 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Children's Health Insurance $884.17 ↑ +64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $920.66 ↑ +71%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $940.76 ↑ +74%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,118.04 ↑ +107%
Cigna Commercial $1,330.16 ↑ +147%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Echo guide for artery repair at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $775.80 $88.25 – $1,034.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $539.40 $115.61 – $764.15
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $539.40 $115.61 – $1,118.04
UPMC Hamot Erie $939.00 $208.38 – $772.43
UPMC Hanover Hanover $539.40 $115.61 – $746.85
UPMC Kane Kane $676.80 $208.38 – $775.20
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,748.40 $208.38 – $772.43
UPMC Memorial York $539.40 $115.61 – $746.85

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