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Cable cath 22-pin diag at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$2,604.00
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.
$4,340.00
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.
$232.47 with Aetna vs $774.90 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $232.47 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $342.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $349.14 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $375.40 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $403.46 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $410.70 | ↓ -84% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $431.36 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $473.55 | ↓ -82% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $478.72 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | First Health | $568.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $576.87 | ↓ -78% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $579.45 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $588.92 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $589.78 | ↓ -77% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $671.58 | ↓ -74% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $671.58 | ↓ -74% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $688.80 | ↓ -74% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $688.80 | ↓ -74% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $774.90 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Cable cath 22-pin diag at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,274.40 | $160.08 – $1,709.77 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,353.60 | $32.25 – $3,142.03 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $11,776.20 | $25.74 – $3,500.81 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,526.60 | $101.99 – $1,296.90 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $109.80 | $45.75 – $2,656.90 |