MRA abdomen post contrast at WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
501 E. Main St., Waynesboro, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1821091059
$735.50
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.
$2,646.00
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.
$166.99 with Health_Partners_Medicaid vs $3,545.65 with Blue_Cross — 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 | $166.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $231.78 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $234.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $238.73 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $238.73 | ↓ -68% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $243.37 | ↓ -67% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $243.37 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $244.41 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $244.53 | ↓ -67% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $257.24 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $257.72 | ↓ -65% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $257.72 | ↓ -65% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $289.73 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $354.62 | ↓ -52% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $382.44 | ↓ -48% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $405.62 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $441.99 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $441.99 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $444.09 | ↓ -40% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $526.18 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $526.18 | ↓ -28% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $597.73 | ↓ -19% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $753.00 | ↑ +2% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $781.84 | ↑ +6% |
| Highmark | Shared_Cost_Blue_PPO | $781.84 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $788.05 | ↑ +7% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $889.57 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $889.57 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $889.57 | ↑ +21% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $1,282.20 | ↑ +74% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $1,375.59 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $1,436.06 | ↑ +95% |
| Cigna | PPO_Plan | $1,444.40 | ↑ +96% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $1,485.51 | ↑ +102% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $1,581.38 | ↑ +115% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $2,030.15 | ↑ +176% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $2,481.95 | ↑ +237% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $3,545.65 | ↑ +382% |
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MRA abdomen post contrast at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,538.40 | $401.05 – $1,845.60 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $2,053.20 | $463.03 – $1,279.54 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $6,359.40 | $383.17 – $1,267.37 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,659.80 | $463.03 – $1,473.69 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,306.40 | $435.20 – $1,158.32 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $735.50 | $231.78 – $1,485.51 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $735.50 | $348.37 – $1,485.51 |
| WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital | Lewisburg | $735.50 | $250.32 – $2,224.04 |