Thyroid met uptake at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
$407.40
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.
$679.00
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.
$23.67 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $577.15 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $23.67 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $38.25 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $38.25 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $39.16 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $41.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $43.87 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $65.02 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $69.32 | ↓ -83% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $90.99 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $119.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $135.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $135.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $251.91 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $253.95 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $253.95 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $300.12 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $302.15 | ↓ -26% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $302.15 | ↓ -26% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $318.52 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $318.52 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $318.52 | ↓ -22% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry | $373.45 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $444.61 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $475.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $491.60 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $499.74 | ↑ +23% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $509.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $529.62 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $577.15 | ↑ +42% |
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Thyroid met uptake at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $407.40 | $23.67 – $577.15 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $407.40 | $23.67 – $577.15 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $407.40 | $23.67 – $65.02 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $213.60 | $33.13 – $62.13 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $407.40 | $23.67 – $369.38 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $288.60 | $33.13 – $72.24 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,370.00 | $21.68 – $80.68 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $407.40 | $20.78 – $62.13 |