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Blood occult feces colorectal neoplasm screening qualitative 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

$20.40

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.

$34.00

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.

$1.22 with Aetna vs $5.91 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.

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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
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $1.22 ↓ -94%
Aetna Commercial $1.44 ↓ -93%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1.51 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $1.59 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1.74 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $1.87 ↓ -91%
Cigna Commercial $2.06 ↓ -90%
Wirerope Works Commercial $2.22 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Commercial $2.22 ↓ -89%
Aetna First Health $2.64 ↓ -87%
Geisinger Commercial $2.68 ↓ -87%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $2.69 ↓ -87%
Multiplan Auto $3.12 ↓ -85%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $3.12 ↓ -85%
America's Choice PPO $3.20 ↓ -84%
InterGroup PPO $3.20 ↓ -84%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $3.60 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $3.82 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $3.82 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3.82 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $3.91 ↓ -81%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.33 ↓ -79%
Geisinger CHIP $4.38 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $4.42 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $4.44 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.47 ↓ -78%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.51 ↓ -78%
Aetna Medicare $4.51 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.69 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.73 ↓ -77%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.73 ↓ -77%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $4.78 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4.88 ↓ -76%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $5.91 ↓ -71%

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Blood occult feces colorectal neoplasm screening qualitative at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $25.80 $1.26 – $28.90
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $20.40 $1.25 – $30.60
UPMC Muncy Muncy $21.00 $3.82 – $28.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $20.40 $1.26 – $28.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $29.40 $1.33 – $41.65
UPMC Somerset Somerset $18.00 $3.13 – $20.25
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $20.40 $1.26 – $28.90
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $27.20 $3.47 – $30.60

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