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Device ablt adv novasure at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$7,153.60
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.
$9,858.00
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.
$796.50 with Aetna vs $4,203.75 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $796.50 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $885.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $885.00 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $902.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $929.25 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $946.95 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $955.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,900.10 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,929.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,237.72 | ↓ -69% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,433.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $2,460.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,964.75 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $3,246.18 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $3,451.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $3,451.50 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,761.25 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,818.78 | ↓ -47% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $3,982.50 | ↓ -44% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,982.50 | ↓ -44% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $4,203.75 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Device ablt adv novasure at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $9,543.60 | $1,238.50 – $4,458.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $9,649.20 | $756.00 – $4,536.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,733.40 | $1,972.25 – $6,705.65 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $6,511.20 | $1,295.50 – $6,661.45 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $14,299.20 | $405.18 – $7,422.09 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,141.20 | $1,725.50 – $5,866.70 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $9,649.20 | $1,279.26 – $4,264.20 |