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Pr correction hammertoe at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$669.00
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.
$1,115.00
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.
$55.80 with Aetna vs $1,212.16 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $55.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $62.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $62.00 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $63.24 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $65.10 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $66.34 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $66.96 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $133.11 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $135.16 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $156.77 | ↓ -77% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $172.36 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $207.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $227.42 | ↓ -66% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $241.80 | ↓ -64% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $241.80 | ↓ -64% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $254.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $254.65 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $254.65 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $254.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $258.12 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $263.50 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $267.53 | ↓ -60% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $279.00 | ↓ -58% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $279.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $294.50 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $349.10 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $394.52 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $810.35 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,212.16 | ↑ +81% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pr correction hammertoe at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $205.20 | $92.34 – $1,212.16 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $254.65 – $3,248.02 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | not published | $254.65 – $3,093.35 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | not published | $254.65 – $3,402.68 |