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Surgical pathology level 3 gross & microscopic examination at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$256.80
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.
$354.00
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.
$8.32 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $304.95 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 | $8.32 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $16.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $18.18 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $18.18 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $18.18 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $18.43 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $24.93 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $28.17 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $57.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $64.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $64.20 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $65.48 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $67.41 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $68.69 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $69.34 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $84.28 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $137.84 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $139.96 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $162.33 | ↓ -37% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $178.48 | ↓ -30% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $215.07 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $235.49 | ↓ -8% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $250.38 | ↓ -3% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $250.38 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $272.85 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $277.02 | ↑ +8% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $288.90 | ↑ +13% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $288.90 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $304.95 | ↑ +19% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Surgical pathology level 3 gross & microscopic examination at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $383.40 | $13.46 – $575.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $212.40 | $8.32 – $283.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $74.40 | $13.54 – $105.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $236.40 | $13.54 – $334.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $542.40 | $7.80 – $768.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $116.40 | $7.47 – $145.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $622.20 | $13.57 – $881.45 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $212.40 | $8.32 – $283.20 |