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Aquatic exercise - group charge at UPMC Wellsboro

32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$112.80

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.

$155.00

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.

$9.06 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $60.80 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 $9.06 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $11.52 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $12.80 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $12.80 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $13.06 ↓ -88%
Cigna Medicare $13.44 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.82 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Medicare $24.82 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $27.48 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $27.90 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $32.36 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $35.20 ↓ -69%
Wirerope Works Commercial $35.58 ↓ -68%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $35.92 ↓ -68%
Geisinger Commercial $42.88 ↓ -62%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $46.95 ↓ -58%
Multiplan Auto $49.92 ↓ -56%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $49.92 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Commercial $54.40 ↓ -52%
Aetna Commercial $55.23 ↓ -51%
America's Choice PPO $57.60 ↓ -49%
InterGroup PPO $57.60 ↓ -49%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $60.80 ↓ -46%

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Aquatic exercise - group charge at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $96.00 $25.48 – $144.00
UPMC Muncy Muncy $93.00 $9.06 – $56.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $80.40 $33.50 – $113.90
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $95.40 $25.73 – $124.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $70.80 $8.50 – $139.16
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $156.60 $25.73 – $221.85
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $93.00 $9.06 – $124.00

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