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Carboplatin 10 mg/ml desensitization 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

$500.40

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$834.00

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.

$2.47 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $50.35 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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $2.47 ↓ -100%
Geisinger CHIP $2.47 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.47 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $2.47 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $2.47 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2.72 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $2.72 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicare $9.54 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $10.60 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.60 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $10.81 ↓ -98%
Cigna Medicare $11.13 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $11.34 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $11.45 ↓ -98%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $20.03 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $22.76 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $23.11 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $26.80 ↓ -95%
Wirerope Works Commercial $29.47 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Commercial $35.51 ↓ -93%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $38.88 ↓ -92%
Multiplan Auto $41.34 ↓ -92%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $41.34 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Commercial $45.05 ↓ -91%
Aetna Commercial $45.74 ↓ -91%
America's Choice PPO $47.70 ↓ -90%
InterGroup PPO $47.70 ↓ -90%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $50.35 ↓ -90%

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Carboplatin 10 mg/ml desensitization at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1,096.00 $1.41 – $289.32
UPMC Muncy Muncy $500.40 $2.47 – $47.70
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,696.00 $1.41 – $384.16
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,600.20 $1.56 – $1,780.75
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $1,600.20 $1.56 – $2,266.95
UPMC Somerset Somerset $0.60 $0.34 – $286.40
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $1,161.60 $1.41 – $292.08
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $1,600.20 $2.47 – $2,266.95

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