Ghs central line insert < age 5, failed at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
$3,229.80
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.
$5,383.00
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.
$149.66 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $9,508.70 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $149.66 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $149.66 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $153.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $160.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $171.65 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $624.66 | ↓ -81% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $721.32 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,076.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $1,076.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $1,997.09 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $2,013.24 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $2,013.24 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,300.42 | ↓ -29% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $2,379.29 | ↓ -26% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $2,395.43 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,395.43 | ↓ -26% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,525.17 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,525.17 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,525.17 | ↓ -22% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry | $2,960.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $2,992.82 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,153.04 | ↓ -2% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $3,174.20 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,174.20 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,234.66 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,524.79 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,768.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $3,897.29 | ↑ +21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $4,037.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $4,575.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $4,836.88 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Children's Health Insurance | $8,936.74 | ↑ +177% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $9,305.55 | ↑ +188% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $9,508.70 | ↑ +194% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ghs central line insert < age 5, failed at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,098.60 | $117.84 – $1,464.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,229.80 | $149.66 – $4,817.54 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,229.80 | $149.66 – $4,575.55 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,239.40 | $129.62 – $4,364.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,106.20 | $129.62 – $3,150.80 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $3,229.80 | $149.66 – $4,810.90 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,715.60 | $129.62 – $4,051.03 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,397.00 | $129.62 – $3,240.82 |