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Beta-2 microglobulin at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$324.80
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.
$438.00
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.
$15.99 with UPMC Work Partners vs $377.15 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 |
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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $15.99 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $19.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $20.90 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $20.90 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $20.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $21.18 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $24.32 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $28.65 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $32.38 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $71.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $79.40 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $79.40 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $80.99 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $83.37 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $84.96 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $85.75 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $170.47 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $173.09 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $200.76 | ↓ -38% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $220.73 | ↓ -32% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $265.99 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $291.24 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $309.66 | ↓ -5% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $309.66 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $337.45 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $342.61 | ↑ +5% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $357.30 | ↑ +10% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $357.30 | ↑ +10% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $377.15 | ↑ +16% |
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Beta-2 microglobulin at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $110.40 | $15.04 – $147.90 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $165.00 | $13.49 – $247.50 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $262.80 | $15.99 – $350.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $74.40 | $14.67 – $105.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $639.00 | $15.99 – $905.25 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $81.60 | $15.99 – $74.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $91.80 | $13.97 – $130.05 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $262.80 | $15.99 – $350.40 |