Transparent film >16<=48 in at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$5.60
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.
$7.00
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.
$1.17 with Aetna vs $9.93 with UPMC Work Partners — 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $1.17 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $1.30 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1.33 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1.36 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1.39 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2.79 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2.83 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $3.29 | ↓ -41% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3.58 | ↓ -36% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $3.61 | ↓ -36% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $4.36 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $4.77 | ↓ -15% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $4.95 | ↓ -12% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $5.07 | ↓ -9% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $5.07 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5.53 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $5.61 | ↑ +0% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $5.85 | ↑ +4% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5.85 | ↑ +4% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $6.17 | ↑ +10% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $9.93 | ↑ +77% |
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Transparent film >16<=48 in at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3.00 | $2.00 – $24.14 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2.40 | $1.00 – $24.14 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3.60 | $1.00 – $24.14 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3.00 | $7.62 – $9.93 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2.40 | $9.93 – $29.21 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $33.00 | $4.06 – $24.14 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2.40 | $4.06 – $24.14 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3.60 | $7.62 – $19.06 |