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Screen cerv/vag thin layer 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

$64.20

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.

$107.00

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.

$15.82 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $101.65 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 $15.82 ↓ -75%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $16.05 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $16.05 ↓ -75%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $16.53 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $16.85 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Medicare $17.17 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $17.33 ↓ -73%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $40.45 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $41.97 ↓ -35%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $43.39 ↓ -32%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $46.65 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $49.42 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $51.04 ↓ -20%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $58.85 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare Commercial $59.38 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $59.49 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $70.62 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $71.69 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $72.01 ↑ +12%
Cigna Commercial $73.30 ↑ +14%
Multiplan Auto $83.46 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $83.46 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $85.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $85.60 ↑ +33%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $96.30 ↑ +50%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $101.65 ↑ +58%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Screen cerv/vag thin layer at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $61.20 $16.89 – $91.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $61.20 $18.37 – $86.70
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $61.20 $18.83 – $86.70
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $61.20 $14.83 – $86.70
UPMC Somerset Somerset $145.20 $14.21 – $146.25
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $61.20 $17.49 – $86.70
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $81.60 $15.82 – $91.80
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $61.20 $15.82 – $91.80

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