Clearance of airways at WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
501 E. Main St., Waynesboro, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1821091059
$248.00
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.
$310.00
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.
$34.65 with UPMC_Medicare vs $832.27 with Highmark — 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 | $34.65 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $34.65 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $34.82 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $41.25 | ↓ -83% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $41.25 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $41.25 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $46.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $162.04 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $186.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $208.32 | ↓ -16% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $216.45 | ↓ -13% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $216.85 | ↓ -13% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $216.85 | ↓ -13% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $216.85 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $216.85 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $219.02 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $223.36 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $223.36 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $227.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $227.69 | ↓ -8% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $227.69 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $228.67 | ↓ -8% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $228.78 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $229.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | PPO_Plan | $238.55 | ↓ -4% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $271.06 | ↑ +9% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $279.00 | ↑ +13% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $294.50 | ↑ +19% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $295.74 | ↑ +19% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $331.78 | ↑ +34% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $357.80 | ↑ +44% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $731.48 | ↑ +195% |
| Highmark | Shared_Cost_Blue_PPO | $731.48 | ↑ +195% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $737.29 | ↑ +197% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $832.27 | ↑ +236% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $832.27 | ↑ +236% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $832.27 | ↑ +236% |
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Clearance of airways at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,011.60 | $34.65 – $1,348.80 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $325.80 | $41.91 – $310.88 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $154.20 | $36.30 – $205.23 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $325.80 | $41.91 – $444.23 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $248.00 | $41.25 – $935.39 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $456.80 | $41.25 – $343.75 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $295.20 | $41.25 – $344.58 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $311.50 | not published |