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Metabolic Blood Panel (Basic) at UPMC Muncy

215 East Water Street, Muncy, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1609816198

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$186.60

Cash price

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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.

$311.00

Gross charge

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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.

$8.36 with UPMC Work Partners vs $295.45 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.36 ↓ -96%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $8.94 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.30 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.30 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $10.30 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.44 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC) $10.55 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicaid $10.55 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $11.98 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $15.95 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $46.65 ↓ -75%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $46.65 ↓ -75%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $48.05 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $48.98 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Medicare $49.92 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $50.38 ↓ -73%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $95.17 ↓ -49%
Aetna Commercial $111.96 ↓ -40%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $117.56 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $121.97 ↓ -35%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $135.60 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $143.65 ↓ -23%
Cigna Commercial $159.85 ↓ -14%
United Healthcare Commercial $172.60 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $172.92 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $205.26 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $208.37 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $209.30 ↑ +12%
Multiplan Auto $242.58 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $242.58 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $248.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $248.80 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $295.45 ↑ +58%

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Metabolic Blood Panel (Basic) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $175.20 $8.36 – $233.60
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $202.80 $7.86 – $271.15
UPMC Hamot Erie $534.60 $8.36 – $623.70
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $55.20 $8.38 – $78.20
UPMC Altoona Altoona $108.60 $8.36 – $144.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $58.80 $3.05 – $88.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $81.60 $5.50 – $108.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $55.20 $8.38 – $65.45

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