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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$2,627.20
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.
$3,620.00
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.
$269.64 with UPMC Work Partners vs $1,606.45 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $269.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $304.38 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $338.20 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $338.20 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $344.96 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $355.11 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $361.87 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $365.26 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $726.12 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $737.28 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $855.14 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $930.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $940.20 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $993.28 | ↓ -62% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,132.97 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,240.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $1,318.98 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,318.98 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,437.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,459.33 | ↓ -44% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $1,521.90 | ↓ -42% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,521.90 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,606.45 | ↓ -39% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,632.20 | $269.64 – $3,728.95 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,070.40 | $300.65 – $1,605.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,172.00 | $269.64 – $2,896.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,476.20 | $269.64 – $3,507.95 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,765.20 | $300.65 – $6,750.70 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,472.00 | $145.38 – $3,090.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,412.60 | $269.64 – $3,417.85 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,172.00 | $269.64 – $2,896.00 |