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Buprenorphine hydrochloride at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$14.20
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.
$17.75
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.
$4.17 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $15.30 with Three Rivers Provider Network — 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $4.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $4.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $4.17 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $4.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4.28 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4.58 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $4.58 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4.59 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.61 | ↓ -68% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $5.09 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $6.76 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $6.89 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $7.41 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $7.97 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $8.11 | ↓ -43% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $8.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $9.45 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | First Health | $11.22 | ↓ -21% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $11.39 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $11.44 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $11.63 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $11.64 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $13.26 | ↓ -7% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $13.26 | ↓ -7% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $13.60 | ↓ -4% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $13.60 | ↓ -4% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $15.30 | ↑ +8% |
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Buprenorphine hydrochloride at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $14.40 | $1.78 – $16.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $14.20 | $2.66 – $15.97 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $29.85 | $1.80 – $42.29 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $29.85 | $1.80 – $41.65 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $9.00 | $1.77 – $9.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $14.20 | $1.80 – $14.45 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $14.20 | $3.19 – $15.97 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $29.85 | $1.77 – $42.29 |