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Cholesterol body fluid at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$9,473.40
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.
$15,789.00
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.
$5.13 with Aetna vs $17.10 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 | $5.13 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $5.81 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $6.84 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7.18 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $7.56 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $8.28 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $8.90 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $9.77 | ↓ -100% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $10.45 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $10.54 | ↓ -100% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $10.56 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | First Health | $12.54 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $12.73 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $12.79 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $14.82 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $14.82 | ↓ -100% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $15.20 | ↓ -100% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $15.20 | ↓ -100% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $17.10 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Cholesterol body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $9,563.40 | $0.78 – $14.45 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $6,088.80 | $0.77 – $213.30 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $514.80 | $128.70 – $772.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $6,841.20 | $0.78 – $38.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $9,563.40 | $0.82 – $17.85 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $49.80 | $1.93 – $31.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $998.40 | $0.78 – $17.85 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $622.40 | $64.62 – $323.10 |