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Application short leg cast 29405 at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$103.20
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.
$172.00
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.
$17.05 with Aetna vs $993.28 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $17.05 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $18.95 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18.95 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $19.33 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $19.90 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $20.28 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $20.47 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $40.69 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $41.31 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $47.92 | ↓ -54% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $52.68 | ↓ -49% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $55.55 | ↓ -46% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $55.55 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $55.55 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $55.55 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $56.31 | ↓ -45% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $63.48 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $69.51 | ↓ -33% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $73.91 | ↓ -28% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $73.91 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $76.15 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $80.54 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $81.77 | ↓ -21% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $85.28 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $85.28 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $86.06 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $90.01 | ↓ -13% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $179.87 | ↑ +74% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $993.28 | ↑ +862% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Application short leg cast 29405 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $699.60 | $55.55 – $991.10 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $366.60 | $55.55 – $549.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $366.60 | $55.55 – $519.35 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $901.80 | $55.55 – $1,277.55 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $520.80 | $55.55 – $892.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $62.40 | $41.38 – $993.28 |