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Wound therapy negative pressure per session <= 50 sq cm dme at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$230.40
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.
$384.00
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.
$3.96 with Aetna vs $31.88 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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 | $3.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $4.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4.40 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $4.62 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $4.71 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $4.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $9.45 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $9.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $11.13 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $12.10 | ↓ -95% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $12.23 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $14.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $16.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $17.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $17.16 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $18.70 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $18.99 | ↓ -92% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $19.80 | ↓ -91% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $19.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $20.90 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $31.88 | ↓ -86% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Wound therapy negative pressure per session <= 50 sq cm dme at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $159.00 | $61.49 – $238.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $298.80 | $108.22 – $423.30 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $361.80 | $62.07 – $512.55 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $204.00 | $29.89 – $289.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $190.20 | $62.07 – $269.45 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $230.40 | $31.88 – $345.60 |