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CT Scan of Abdomen and Pelvis (with contrast) at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$5,385.60
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.
$7,422.00
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.
$246.69 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $6,395.40 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $246.69 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $289.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $289.48 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $289.48 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $289.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $293.42 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $396.85 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $448.48 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $501.96 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,211.76 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $1,346.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,346.40 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,373.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,413.72 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,440.65 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,454.11 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,890.72 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,935.15 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $3,404.37 | ↓ -37% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $3,742.99 | ↓ -31% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $4,510.44 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $4,938.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $5,250.96 | ↓ -3% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $5,250.96 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,722.20 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $5,809.72 | ↑ +8% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $6,058.80 | ↑ +13% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $6,058.80 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $6,395.40 | ↑ +19% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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CT Scan of Abdomen and Pelvis (with contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $5,632.80 | $289.48 – $7,510.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,436.60 | $289.48 – $7,701.85 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $6,945.60 | $210.72 – $8,103.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,985.60 | $252.48 – $4,229.60 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,737.80 | $192.73 – $3,650.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,915.20 | $122.85 – $2,872.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,431.00 | $276.32 – $1,908.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,985.60 | $112.60 – $3,952.42 |