Exc neck tum deep < 5 cm 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

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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.

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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.

$152.40 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $8,646.33 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.

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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
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $152.40
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $156.00
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $162.00
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $163.44
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $174.79
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $732.72
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,053.24
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2,315.21
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $2,721.39
Aetna Medicare $2,867.08
Cigna Medicare $2,886.32
Geisinger Medicare $2,886.32
United Healthcare Medicare $2,941.30
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $4,398.21
Cigna Commercial $5,035.00
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Children's Health Insurance $8,126.24
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $8,461.60
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $8,646.33
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
United Healthcare Commercial not published by hospital

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Exc neck tum deep < 5 cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Cole Coudersport $910.80 $126.00 – $1,214.40
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $1,028.67 $132.00 – $5,847.63
UPMC Altoona Altoona not published $120.00 – $2,946.91
UPMC Bedford Everett not published $126.00 – $2,946.91
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg not published $162.00 – $5,805.45
UPMC East Monroeville not published $132.00 – $3,001.48
UPMC Memorial York not published $152.40 – $4,391.07
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh not published $132.00 – $3,001.48

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