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Dx bronchoscope/wash 31622 at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$3,540.00
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.
$4,878.00
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.
$147.25 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $3,335.45 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $147.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $147.25 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $147.25 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $147.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $149.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $201.86 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $228.12 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $563.04 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $631.98 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $702.20 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $702.20 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $716.24 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $737.31 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $751.35 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $758.38 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $838.40 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,507.62 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,530.80 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,775.51 | ↓ -50% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $1,952.12 | ↓ -45% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,352.37 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $2,575.67 | ↓ -27% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $2,738.58 | ↓ -23% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,738.58 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,984.35 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,029.99 | ↓ -14% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $3,159.90 | ↓ -11% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,159.90 | ↓ -11% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $3,335.45 | ↓ -6% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Dx bronchoscope/wash 31622 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,111.40 | $147.25 – $2,991.15 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,305.40 | $147.25 – $4,958.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,322.60 | $147.25 – $3,096.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,558.20 | $147.25 – $2,207.45 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,749.00 | $147.25 – $6,727.75 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,168.40 | $147.25 – $2,710.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,896.60 | $147.25 – $2,686.85 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,322.60 | $147.25 – $3,096.80 |