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Application of paste boot 29580 at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$307.20
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.
$512.00
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.
$71.62 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $162.46 with PA Health & Wellness — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $71.62 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $72.99 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $78.48 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $84.35 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $85.86 | ↓ -72% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $90.18 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $99.00 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $99.42 | ↓ -68% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $100.08 | ↓ -67% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $106.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $109.82 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $113.80 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | First Health | $118.80 | ↓ -61% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $120.60 | ↓ -61% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $121.14 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $123.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $123.30 | ↓ -60% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $140.40 | ↓ -54% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $140.40 | ↓ -54% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $144.00 | ↓ -53% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $144.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $151.90 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $153.44 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $154.94 | ↓ -50% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $154.94 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $160.96 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $162.45 | ↓ -47% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $162.46 | ↓ -47% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Application of paste boot 29580 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $618.60 | $99.42 – $876.35 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $366.60 | $105.15 – $549.90 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $471.00 | $99.42 – $628.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $336.00 | $90.51 – $476.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $771.60 | $105.15 – $1,093.10 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $496.20 | $88.00 – $620.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $405.00 | $99.42 – $573.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $569.60 | $14.58 – $113.80 |