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Neck (Cervical Spine) CT scan (without contrast) at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$2,550.40
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.
$3,514.00
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.
$106.37 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,028.60 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 | $106.37 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $146.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $146.95 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $146.95 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $146.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $148.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $201.45 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $227.66 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $573.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $637.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $637.60 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $641.23 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $650.35 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $669.48 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $682.23 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $688.61 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,368.93 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,389.97 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,612.17 | ↓ -37% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $1,772.53 | ↓ -30% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,135.96 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $2,338.72 | ↓ -8% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $2,486.64 | ↓ -3% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,486.64 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,709.80 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,751.24 | ↑ +8% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $2,869.20 | ↑ +13% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,869.20 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $3,028.60 | ↑ +19% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Neck (Cervical Spine) CT scan (without contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,863.00 | $101.65 – $2,484.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,795.80 | $94.21 – $2,544.05 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,104.00 | $115.81 – $4,788.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $796.80 | $100.71 – $1,128.80 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,209.00 | $83.10 – $1,612.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $847.80 | $36.58 – $1,271.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $751.80 | $140.27 – $1,002.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $796.80 | $103.55 – $1,128.80 |