Lab pathology consultation at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
$171.00
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.
$285.00
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.
$38.19 with Prime Net vs $242.25 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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| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $38.19 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $45.88 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $52.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $57.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $57.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $105.73 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $106.59 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $106.59 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $125.97 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $126.83 | ↓ -26% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $126.83 | ↓ -26% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $133.69 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $133.69 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $133.69 | ↓ -22% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry | $156.75 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $156.75 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $186.62 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $199.50 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $199.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $206.34 | ↑ +21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $213.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $242.25 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |