Tubular dressing at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$5.80
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.
$8.00
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.
$1.16 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $6.89 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 | $1.16 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.30 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1.45 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $1.45 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1.48 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1.52 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1.55 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1.57 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.02 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3.11 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3.16 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $3.67 | ↓ -37% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3.99 | ↓ -31% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $4.03 | ↓ -31% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $4.86 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $5.32 | ↓ -8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $5.66 | ↓ -2% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $5.66 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $6.16 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $6.26 | ↑ +8% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $6.53 | ↑ +13% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $6.53 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $6.89 | ↑ +19% |
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Tubular dressing at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2.40 | $1.00 – $6.38 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $11.40 | $2.02 – $5.04 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $4.80 | $1.16 – $2.16 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2.40 | $2.02 – $9.26 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $85.80 | $1.09 – $10.32 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $4.80 | $1.16 – $2.23 |