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ER Visit (level 3) at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$900.00
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.
$1,240.00
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.
$36.72 with Aetna vs $240.75 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 | $36.72 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $38.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $40.80 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $40.80 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $41.62 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $42.84 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $44.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $62.31 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $62.31 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $62.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $63.16 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $72.51 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $85.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $87.60 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $88.94 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $96.54 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $103.16 | ↓ -89% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $113.42 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $114.35 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $136.68 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $149.65 | ↓ -83% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $159.12 | ↓ -82% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $159.12 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $173.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $176.05 | ↓ -80% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $183.60 | ↓ -80% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $183.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $193.80 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $240.75 | ↓ -73% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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ER Visit (level 3) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $880.20 | $62.31 – $1,173.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $763.20 | $62.31 – $1,081.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $793.20 | $62.31 – $925.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $887.40 | $45.50 – $1,257.15 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $709.20 | $79.00 – $945.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $429.60 | $59.48 – $644.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $274.20 | $39.46 – $272.94 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $887.40 | $45.50 – $1,257.15 |