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Ultrasound joint complete left at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$1,025.60
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.
$1,413.00
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.
$84.71 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,217.90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $84.71 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $170.06 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $230.76 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $256.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $256.40 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $261.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $269.22 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $274.35 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $276.91 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $550.49 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $558.95 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $648.31 | ↓ -37% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $705.10 | ↓ -31% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $712.79 | ↓ -31% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $858.94 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $940.48 | ↓ -8% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $999.96 | ↓ -3% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $999.96 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,089.70 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,106.37 | ↑ +8% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $1,153.80 | ↑ +13% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,153.80 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,217.90 | ↑ +19% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ultrasound joint complete left at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $965.40 | $94.21 – $1,367.65 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $785.40 | $84.51 – $1,178.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $847.80 | $84.71 – $1,130.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $625.80 | $91.94 – $886.55 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,263.00 | $79.42 – $1,789.25 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $394.20 | $76.11 – $492.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $925.20 | $87.53 – $1,310.70 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $847.80 | $84.71 – $1,130.40 |