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Endoscopic injection/implant at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$12,844.00
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.
$17,701.00
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.
$106.92 with Aetna vs $3,435.77 with United Healthcare — 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 | $106.92 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $118.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $118.80 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $121.18 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $124.74 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $128.30 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $204.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $204.26 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $204.26 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $204.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $207.04 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $255.06 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $258.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $280.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $300.39 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $316.45 | ↓ -98% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $330.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $397.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $435.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $463.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $463.32 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $504.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $512.62 | ↓ -96% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $534.60 | ↓ -96% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $534.60 | ↓ -96% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $564.30 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $600.99 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $993.28 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,435.77 | ↓ -73% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Endoscopic injection/implant at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $204.26 – $3,617.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $204.26 – $3,452.59 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | not published | $204.26 – $3,288.18 |