Heparin assay at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
$66.60
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.
$111.00
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.
$6.53 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $94.35 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.
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 | $6.53 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $8.29 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $8.49 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $8.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $8.89 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.51 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $12.96 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $13.14 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $13.54 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $13.65 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $13.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $13.74 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $14.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $14.87 | ↓ -78% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $20.94 | ↓ -69% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $22.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $22.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $34.04 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Children's Health Insurance | $38.70 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $40.29 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $41.17 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $41.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $41.51 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $41.51 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $48.05 | ↓ -28% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $49.06 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $49.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $49.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $52.07 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $52.07 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $52.07 | ↓ -22% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry | $61.05 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $72.68 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $77.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $80.36 | ↑ +21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $83.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $94.35 | ↑ +42% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Heparin assay at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $28.80 | $6.53 – $38.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $88.20 | $4.72 – $132.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $66.60 | $6.53 – $94.35 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $66.60 | $6.53 – $94.35 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $111.60 | $6.53 – $148.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $89.40 | $6.53 – $14.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $75.60 | $7.18 – $13.74 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $66.60 | $6.53 – $20.94 |