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Specific gravity body fluid 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

$42.60

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.

$71.00

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.

$2.56 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $67.45 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $2.56 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.24 ↓ -92%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $3.47 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.65 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $10.65 ↓ -75%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $10.97 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $11.18 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Medicare $11.40 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $11.50 ↓ -73%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $21.73 ↓ -49%
Aetna Commercial $25.56 ↓ -40%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $26.84 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $27.85 ↓ -35%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $30.96 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $32.79 ↓ -23%
Cigna Commercial $36.49 ↓ -14%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $39.05 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare Commercial $39.41 ↓ -7%
Wirerope Works Commercial $39.48 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $46.86 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $47.57 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $47.78 ↑ +12%
Multiplan Auto $55.38 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $55.38 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $56.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $56.80 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $67.45 ↑ +58%

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Specific gravity body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $25.80 $2.94 – $36.55
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $24.60 $2.73 – $36.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $16.80 $2.94 – $23.80
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $209.40 $2.40 – $296.65
UPMC Somerset Somerset $17.40 $2.30 – $21.75
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $37.20 $2.83 – $52.70
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $52.00 $2.56 – $58.50
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $42.60 $2.56 – $56.80

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