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MRA abdomen post contrast at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$3,306.40
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.
$4,133.00
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.
$435.20 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,375.00 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.
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 | $435.20 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $450.00 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $463.03 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $463.03 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $463.03 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $463.03 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $469.35 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $500.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $500.00 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $510.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $525.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $535.00 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $540.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $634.78 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $717.37 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,073.50 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,090.00 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,158.32 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,264.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $1,390.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,675.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,834.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $1,950.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,950.00 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,125.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,157.50 | ↓ -35% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $2,250.00 | ↓ -32% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,250.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $2,375.00 | ↓ -28% |
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MRA abdomen post contrast at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,659.80 | $463.03 – $8,018.05 |