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MRA pelvis w IV cont at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$1,497.60
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.
$2,496.00
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.
$287.67 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,371.20 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 | $287.67 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $449.28 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $499.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $499.20 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $509.18 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $524.16 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $534.14 | ↓ -64% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $539.14 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,071.78 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,088.26 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,262.23 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,372.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $1,387.78 | ↓ -7% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,672.32 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,831.07 | ↑ +22% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $1,946.88 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,946.88 | ↑ +30% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,121.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,154.05 | ↑ +44% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $2,246.40 | ↑ +50% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,246.40 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $2,371.20 | ↑ +58% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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MRA pelvis w IV cont at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,597.20 | $287.67 – $2,395.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,004.00 | $269.69 – $11,339.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,713.80 | $258.45 – $3,392.25 |