Chest X-ray at WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
501 E. Main St., Waynesboro, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1821091059
$322.40
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.
$403.00
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.
$24.82 with UPMC_Medicare vs $497.84 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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| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $24.82 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $24.82 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $24.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $29.55 | ↓ -91% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $29.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $29.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $31.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $33.57 | ↓ -90% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $93.70 | ↓ -71% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $93.88 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $93.88 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $93.88 | ↓ -71% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $93.88 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $94.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $96.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $96.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $98.57 | ↓ -69% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $98.57 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $99.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $99.04 | ↓ -69% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $109.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $115.76 | ↓ -64% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $117.35 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $143.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $154.90 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $165.37 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $241.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $270.82 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $295.36 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $298.22 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | PPO_Plan | $310.11 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $316.68 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark | Shared_Cost_Blue_PPO | $316.68 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $319.19 | ↓ -1% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $360.31 | ↑ +12% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $360.31 | ↑ +12% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $360.31 | ↑ +12% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $382.85 | ↑ +19% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $497.84 | ↑ +54% |
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Chest X-ray at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $172.80 | $11.78 – $230.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $115.80 | $24.82 – $173.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $188.40 | $5.34 – $134.77 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $150.60 | $24.82 – $200.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $188.40 | $7.80 – $135.02 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $436.20 | $11.90 – $581.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $532.80 | $11.78 – $118.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $141.00 | $26.00 – $88.15 |