ER Visit (level 2) at WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
501 E. Main St., Waynesboro, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1821091059
$584.00
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.
$730.00
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.
$36.75 with UPMC_Medicare vs $1,835.00 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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| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $36.75 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $36.75 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $36.93 | ↓ -94% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $43.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $43.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $43.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $49.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $68.75 | ↓ -88% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $168.53 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $168.84 | ↓ -71% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $168.84 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $168.84 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $170.53 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $173.91 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $173.91 | ↓ -70% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $177.28 | ↓ -70% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $177.28 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $178.04 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $178.13 | ↓ -69% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $211.05 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $258.33 | ↓ -56% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $278.59 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $438.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $440.30 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $490.56 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $535.02 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $540.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | PPO_Plan | $561.74 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $574.06 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark | Shared_Cost_Blue_PPO | $602.67 | ↑ +3% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $602.67 | ↑ +3% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $613.01 | ↑ +5% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $613.01 | ↑ +5% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $613.01 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +8% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $657.00 | ↑ +13% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $693.50 | ↑ +19% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $1,835.00 | ↑ +214% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $1,835.00 | ↑ +214% |
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ER Visit (level 2) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $496.20 | $35.00 – $661.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $325.20 | $34.63 – $487.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $570.60 | $34.91 – $808.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $210.00 | $30.27 – $203.78 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $570.60 | $34.91 – $808.35 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $652.80 | $36.28 – $870.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $640.20 | $36.28 – $188.19 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $265.20 | $36.28 – $163.04 |