Vital capacity test at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
$350.40
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.
$584.00
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.
$3.14 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $613.00 with United Healthcare — 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 | $3.14 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $5.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $5.45 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $5.83 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $23.69 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $36.23 | ↓ -90% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $78.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $116.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $116.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $148.77 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $156.73 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $157.78 | ↓ -55% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $157.78 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $160.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $216.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $218.42 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $218.42 | ↓ -38% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $240.43 | ↓ -31% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $258.13 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $259.88 | ↓ -26% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $259.88 | ↓ -26% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $273.95 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $273.95 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $273.95 | ↓ -22% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry | $321.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $382.40 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $408.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $422.82 | ↑ +21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $438.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Children's Health Insurance | $444.23 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $455.52 | ↑ +30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $462.56 | ↑ +32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $472.66 | ↑ +35% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $496.40 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $613.00 | ↑ +75% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Vital capacity test at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $350.40 | $3.14 – $496.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $64.80 | $4.20 – $86.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $350.40 | $3.14 – $280.50 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $350.40 | $3.14 – $239.15 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $134.40 | $4.40 – $85.93 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $350.40 | $3.14 – $240.05 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $350.40 | $2.76 – $149.17 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $210.40 | $3.00 – $719.56 |