Uric acid blood at WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
501 E. Main St., Waynesboro, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1821091059
$15.00
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.
$24.00
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.
$4.52 with Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare vs $42.54 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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| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.66 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.66 | ↓ -69% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -68% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -68% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.77 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.77 | ↓ -68% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $4.88 | ↓ -67% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $4.88 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $5.65 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $6.55 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $6.55 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $6.58 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $6.92 | ↓ -54% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $7.46 | ↓ -50% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $7.80 | ↓ -48% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $7.80 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $7.80 | ↓ -48% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $7.91 | ↓ -47% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $8.86 | ↓ -41% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $12.50 | ↓ -17% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $13.56 | ↓ -10% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $14.40 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $15.25 | ↑ +2% |
| Highmark | Shared_Cost_Blue_PPO | $15.25 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $15.37 | ↑ +2% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $17.35 | ↑ +16% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $17.35 | ↑ +16% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $17.35 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $17.59 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $17.71 | ↑ +18% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $17.76 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | PPO_Plan | $18.47 | ↑ +23% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $19.49 | ↑ +30% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $21.60 | ↑ +44% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $22.80 | ↑ +52% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $29.78 | ↑ +99% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $42.54 | ↑ +184% |
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Uric acid blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $73.80 | $4.47 – $98.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $33.00 | $1.63 – $49.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $23.40 | $4.47 – $33.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $35.40 | $2.94 – $47.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $23.40 | $4.47 – $33.38 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $67.20 | $4.47 – $89.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $155.40 | $4.47 – $8.74 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $36.00 | $4.10 – $7.18 |