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Glucose blood by monitoring device cleared by fda for home use at UPMC Wellsboro

32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$37.80

Cash price

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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.

$52.00

Gross charge

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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.

$2.00 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $42.75 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.

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Payer
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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.

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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $2.00 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.20 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2.20 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $2.20 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $2.23 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $2.56 ↓ -93%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $3.02 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.24 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $3.41 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $8.10 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $9.00 ↓ -76%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $9.00 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $9.18 ↓ -76%
Cigna Medicare $9.45 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.63 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.72 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $19.32 ↓ -49%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $19.62 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $22.76 ↓ -40%
Wirerope Works Commercial $25.02 ↓ -34%
Geisinger Commercial $30.15 ↓ -20%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $33.01 ↓ -13%
Multiplan Auto $35.10 ↓ -7%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $35.10 ↓ -7%
United Healthcare Commercial $38.25 ↑ +1%
Aetna Commercial $38.84 ↑ +3%
America's Choice PPO $40.50 ↑ +7%
InterGroup PPO $40.50 ↑ +7%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $42.75 ↑ +13%

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Glucose blood by monitoring device cleared by fda for home use at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $40.80 $2.20 – $57.80
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $12.60 $2.20 – $18.90
UPMC Muncy Muncy $31.20 $2.20 – $39.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $32.40 $2.20 – $45.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $71.40 $2.00 – $101.15
UPMC Somerset Somerset $19.20 $2.20 – $24.00
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $24.60 $2.20 – $34.85
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $29.40 $2.20 – $39.20

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