Echo transesophageal intraop at UPMC Muncy
215 East Water Street, Muncy, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1609816198
$2,142.60
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.
$3,571.00
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.
$392.84 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,392.45 with Multiplan — 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $392.84 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $535.65 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $535.65 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $551.72 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $562.43 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $573.15 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $578.50 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $1,400.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,448.04 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,556.96 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,649.44 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,703.37 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,789.07 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,964.05 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $1,985.48 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $2,356.86 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,392.57 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $2,403.28 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,442.56 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,446.14 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $2,785.38 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,785.38 | ↑ +30% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,856.80 | ↑ +33% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $2,856.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $3,213.90 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $3,392.45 | ↑ +58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo transesophageal intraop at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,142.60 | $224.30 – $2,856.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,737.60 | $288.48 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,737.60 | $402.05 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,853.60 | $224.30 – $714.96 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,737.60 | $402.05 – $842.59 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,978.20 | $226.44 – $575.01 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,737.60 | $182.82 – $841.22 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,355.60 | $226.44 – $575.01 |