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Remove foreign body from eye 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

$4,494.00

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.

$7,490.00

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.

$993.28 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $7,115.50 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.

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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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $993.28 ↓ -78%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,123.50 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $1,123.50 ↓ -75%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,157.20 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $1,179.67 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,202.14 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,213.38 ↓ -73%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,458.03 ↓ -68%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $1,559.75 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $2,937.58 ↓ -35%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $3,037.20 ↓ -32%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $3,265.64 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $3,459.63 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $3,572.73 ↓ -21%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,752.49 ↓ -17%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $4,119.50 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $4,164.44 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $4,943.40 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $5,018.30 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $5,040.77 ↑ +12%
United Healthcare Commercial $5,123.16 ↑ +14%
Cigna Commercial $5,130.65 ↑ +14%
Multiplan Auto $5,842.20 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $5,842.20 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $5,992.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $5,992.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $7,115.50 ↑ +58%

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Remove foreign body from eye at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $3,769.20 $736.75 – $5,339.70
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $3,093.60 $596.00 – $4,640.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $4,779.60 $1,085.01 – $6,771.10
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $3,852.00 $736.75 – $5,457.00
UPMC Somerset Somerset $3,433.80 $722.42 – $4,292.25
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $3,768.60 $736.75 – $5,338.85
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $4,494.00 $993.28 – $6,741.00
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport not published $993.28 – $2,348.35

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