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Smear wet mount at UPMC Muncy
215 East Water Street, Muncy, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1609816198
$111.60
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.
$186.00
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.
$5.75 with UPMC Work Partners vs $176.70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $5.75 | ↓ -95% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $6.15 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.40 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $6.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $6.49 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $6.56 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $6.56 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $7.45 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $9.92 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $27.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $27.90 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $28.74 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $29.30 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $29.85 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $30.13 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $56.92 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $66.96 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $70.31 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $72.95 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $81.10 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $85.91 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $95.60 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $103.23 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $103.42 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $122.76 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $124.62 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $125.18 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $145.08 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $145.08 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $148.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $148.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $176.70 | ↑ +58% |
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Smear wet mount at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $43.20 | $4.85 – $64.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $33.00 | $5.28 – $46.75 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $102.60 | $5.41 – $145.35 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $165.00 | $5.75 – $233.75 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $32.40 | $5.75 – $27.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $68.40 | $5.02 – $96.90 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $135.20 | $5.75 – $96.30 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $111.60 | $2.14 – $7.45 |