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Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$98.40
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.
$164.00
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.
$26.52 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $154.85 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 | $26.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $29.34 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $32.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $32.60 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $33.25 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $34.23 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $34.88 | ↓ -65% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $35.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $69.99 | ↓ -29% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $71.07 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $82.43 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $89.65 | ↓ -9% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $90.63 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $109.21 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $119.58 | ↑ +22% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $127.14 | ↑ +29% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $127.14 | ↑ +29% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $138.55 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $140.67 | ↑ +43% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $146.70 | ↑ +49% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $146.70 | ↑ +49% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $154.85 | ↑ +57% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $165.00 | $28.22 – $233.75 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $142.20 | $28.06 – $213.30 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $98.40 | $24.60 – $147.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $63.60 | $28.24 – $90.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $229.20 | $24.86 – $324.70 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $137.40 | $28.29 – $194.65 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $98.40 | $26.52 – $147.60 |