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Pr incision & drainage abscess complicated/multiple at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$712.80
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.
$983.00
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.
$57.75 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $768.00 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.
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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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $57.75 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $57.75 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $57.75 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $57.75 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $58.54 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $79.17 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $89.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $94.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $105.40 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $105.40 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $107.51 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $110.67 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $113.83 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $190.67 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $220.44 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $226.29 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $229.77 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $266.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $293.01 | ↓ -59% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $353.09 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $386.61 | ↓ -46% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $411.06 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $411.06 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $447.95 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $454.80 | ↓ -36% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $474.30 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $474.30 | ↓ -33% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $500.65 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $768.00 | ↑ +8% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pr incision & drainage abscess complicated/multiple at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,008.00 | $57.75 – $1,428.00 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,237.20 | $57.75 – $1,855.80 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $589.80 | $57.75 – $786.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,108.20 | $57.75 – $1,569.95 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,184.00 | $57.75 – $3,094.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $955.80 | $57.75 – $1,070.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,233.00 | $57.75 – $1,746.75 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $589.80 | $57.75 – $768.00 |