Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
501 E. Main St., Waynesboro, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1821091059
$2,428.00
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.
$3,035.00
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.
$30.00 with Health_Partners_Medicaid vs $2,895.39 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.
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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 | $30.00 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $93.14 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $93.14 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $93.58 | ↓ -96% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $110.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $110.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $110.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $125.95 | ↓ -95% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $657.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $659.18 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $659.18 | ↓ -73% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $659.18 | ↓ -73% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $659.18 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $665.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $678.96 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $678.96 | ↓ -72% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $692.14 | ↓ -71% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $692.14 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $695.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $695.43 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $823.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $1,008.55 | ↓ -58% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $1,087.65 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $1,821.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $2,039.52 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark | Shared_Cost_Blue_PPO | $2,223.55 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $2,223.55 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $2,224.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $2,241.21 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $2,245.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | PPO_Plan | $2,335.43 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $2,529.93 | ↑ +4% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $2,529.93 | ↑ +4% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $2,529.93 | ↑ +4% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $2,731.50 | ↑ +13% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $2,883.25 | ↑ +19% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $2,895.39 | ↑ +19% |
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Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,635.00 | $403.71 – $2,180.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,040.00 | $212.67 – $3,060.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,304.60 | $64.39 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,092.60 | $42.41 – $863.16 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,304.60 | $94.00 – $1,221.53 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,153.40 | $407.56 – $2,871.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,974.60 | $403.71 – $863.16 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,509.00 | $534.56 – $863.16 |