Hopd covid-19 spec collect at UPMC Muncy
215 East Water Street, Muncy, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1609816198
$18.00
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.
$30.00
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.
$4.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $28.50 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4.50 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $4.63 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $4.72 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $4.82 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $4.86 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $9.18 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $10.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $11.34 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $11.77 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $13.08 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $13.86 | ↓ -23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $16.50 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $16.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $16.68 | ↓ -7% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $19.49 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | First Health | $19.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $20.10 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $20.19 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $20.55 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $23.40 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $23.40 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $24.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $24.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $27.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $28.50 | ↑ +58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Hopd covid-19 spec collect at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Kane | Kane | $50.40 | $31.96 – $31.96 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $18.00 | $25.81 – $67.05 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $18.00 | $62.98 – $62.98 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $24.00 | $19.49 – $19.49 |