Electron microscopy diagnostic at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
$1,472.40
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.
$2,454.00
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.
$22.93 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,467.88 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $22.93 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $69.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $87.63 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $89.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $93.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $100.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $328.84 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $346.04 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $429.13 | ↓ -71% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $490.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $490.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $776.75 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $817.28 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $818.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $823.83 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $823.83 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $839.52 | ↓ -43% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $910.43 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $917.80 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $917.80 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $1,084.67 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,092.03 | ↓ -26% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $1,092.03 | ↓ -26% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,151.17 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,151.17 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,151.17 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,255.36 | ↓ -15% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry | $1,349.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,606.88 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,717.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,776.70 | ↑ +21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,840.50 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,085.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Children's Health Insurance | $2,319.43 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,415.16 | ↑ +64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,467.88 | ↑ +68% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Electron microscopy diagnostic at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,422.80 | $17.50 – $3,230.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $2,085.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $1,500.25 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,137.60 | $69.00 – $1,516.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,811.40 | $69.00 – $970.76 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,386.00 | $75.90 – $817.76 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $1,248.61 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $774.00 | $20.12 – $841.13 |