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Biopsy cervixsingle/multiple 57500 at UPMC Williamsport

700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$424.20

Cash price

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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.

$707.00

Gross charge

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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.

$72.73 with UPMC Health Plan vs $997.12 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $72.73 ↓ -83%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $72.73 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $72.73 ↓ -83%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $74.55 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $92.90 ↓ -78%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $112.68 ↓ -73%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $202.12 ↓ -52%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $216.22 ↓ -49%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $223.27 ↓ -47%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $281.32 ↓ -34%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $286.69 ↓ -32%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $308.25 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $331.30 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $337.24 ↓ -20%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $354.21 ↓ -16%
Wirerope Works Commercial $393.09 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $466.62 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $473.69 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $475.81 ↑ +12%
United Healthcare Commercial $483.59 ↑ +14%
Cigna Commercial $484.30 ↑ +14%
Multiplan Auto $551.46 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $551.46 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $565.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $565.60 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $838.29 ↑ +98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $846.75 ↑ +100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $855.05 ↑ +102%
Aetna Medicare $855.05 ↑ +102%
United Healthcare Medicare $888.26 ↑ +109%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $896.48 ↑ +111%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $896.56 ↑ +111%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $997.12 ↑ +135%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Biopsy cervixsingle/multiple 57500 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $8,772.60 $72.73 – $12,427.85
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $7,606.20 $72.73 – $11,409.30
UPMC Northwest Seneca $8,072.40 $72.73 – $11,435.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $7,579.80 $72.73 – $10,738.05
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $7,461.60 $39.24 – $997.12
UPMC Somerset Somerset not published $72.73 – $895.85

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