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Assay of feces porphyrins at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$227.40
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.
$379.00
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.
$30.54 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $303.20 with InterGroup — 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 | $30.54 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $38.65 | ↓ -83% |
| Geisinger | CHIP | $39.11 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $39.49 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $39.89 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $40.28 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $40.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $41.34 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $41.85 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $42.23 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $42.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $42.69 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $115.97 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $136.44 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $143.26 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $150.80 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $165.24 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $177.60 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $194.81 | ↓ -14% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $208.45 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $210.34 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $210.72 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $250.14 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $253.93 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $255.07 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $295.62 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $295.62 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $303.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $303.20 | ↑ +33% |
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Assay of feces porphyrins at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $165.60 | $36.34 – $234.60 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $204.60 | $32.60 – $306.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $276.00 | $35.47 – $391.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $838.20 | $28.63 – $1,187.45 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $190.80 | $33.77 – $270.30 |