Init pm e/m new pat 65+ yrs 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

$216.00

Cash price

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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.

$360.00

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.

$25.60 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $342.00 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
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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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $25.60 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicare $64.80 ↓ -70%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $72.00 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $72.00 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $73.44 ↓ -66%
Cigna Medicare $75.60 ↓ -65%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $77.76 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $154.58 ↓ -28%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $156.96 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $182.05 ↓ -16%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $198.00 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $200.16 ↓ -7%
Geisinger Commercial $241.20 ↑ +12%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $264.10 ↑ +22%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $280.80 ↑ +30%
Multiplan Auto $280.80 ↑ +30%
United Healthcare Commercial $306.00 ↑ +42%
Aetna Commercial $310.68 ↑ +44%
America's Choice PPO $324.00 ↑ +50%
InterGroup PPO $324.00 ↑ +50%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $342.00 ↑ +58%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Init pm e/m new pat 65+ yrs at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $332.40 $44.87 – $443.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $192.60 $88.98 – $256.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $154.80 $26.20 – $240.09
UPMC Somerset Somerset $154.80 $23.00 – $76.54

All Pennsylvania hospitals for this procedure →