Insert cath pleura with image at WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
501 E. Main St., Waynesboro, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1821091059
$1,232.00
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.
$1,540.00
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.
$60.00 with Health_Partners_Medicaid vs $6,356.69 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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| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $60.00 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $139.23 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $139.23 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $139.89 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $165.75 | ↓ -87% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $165.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $165.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $188.29 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $924.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $1,034.88 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $1,128.67 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $1,139.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | PPO_Plan | $1,185.03 | ↓ -4% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $1,386.00 | ↑ +13% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $1,463.00 | ↑ +19% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $1,469.16 | ↑ +19% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,653.17 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $1,656.25 | ↑ +34% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $1,656.25 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,656.25 | ↑ +34% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $1,656.25 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,672.81 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,705.94 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,705.94 | ↑ +38% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $1,739.06 | ↑ +41% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,739.06 | ↑ +41% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,746.52 | ↑ +42% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $1,747.34 | ↑ +42% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $2,070.31 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $2,534.06 | ↑ +106% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $2,732.81 | ↑ +122% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $5,586.86 | ↑ +353% |
| Highmark | Shared_Cost_Blue_PPO | $5,586.86 | ↑ +353% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $5,631.25 | ↑ +357% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $6,356.69 | ↑ +416% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $6,356.69 | ↑ +416% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $6,356.69 | ↑ +416% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,942.80 | $766.66 – $2,590.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,611.20 | $534.35 – $3,916.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $10,384.20 | $817.33 – $14,710.95 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $396.00 | $79.00 – $1,283.30 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $10,384.20 | $1,016.56 – $14,710.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,764.80 | $773.96 – $3,686.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,484.60 | $766.66 – $2,154.03 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,320.80 | $1,283.30 – $1,599.50 |