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Imported lipodox inj at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$11,220.60
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.
$18,701.00
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.
$528.86 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,553.95 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $528.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $673.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $748.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $748.20 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $763.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $785.61 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $800.57 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $808.06 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,414.10 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,606.39 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,631.08 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,891.82 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,057.55 | ↓ -82% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $2,080.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,506.47 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $2,744.40 | ↓ -76% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $2,917.98 | ↓ -74% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,917.98 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,179.85 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,228.48 | ↓ -71% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $3,366.90 | ↓ -70% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,366.90 | ↓ -70% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $3,553.95 | ↓ -68% |
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Imported lipodox inj at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $11,220.60 | $528.86 – $3,366.90 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,018.20 | $470.68 – $5,692.45 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,474.40 | $470.68 – $3,505.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,244.60 | $528.86 – $3,366.90 |