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Knee Arthroscopy (Meniscus Repair) at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
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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.
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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.
$690.25 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $9,802.07 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $690.25 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $706.55 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $733.73 | — |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $740.25 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $791.66 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,220.92 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,948.82 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $3,085.16 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,250.30 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,250.32 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,272.14 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $3,272.14 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,334.46 | — |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $4,986.11 | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6,971.00 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Children's Health Insurance | $9,212.47 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $9,592.66 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $9,802.07 | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Knee Arthroscopy (Meniscus Repair) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,639.20 | $570.67 – $2,185.60 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $543.50 – $3,340.82 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | not published | $570.67 – $3,340.82 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $597.85 – $3,402.68 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $597.85 – $4,499.05 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $690.25 – $4,966.18 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $733.73 – $9,755.55 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | not published | $690.25 – $4,959.33 |