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Chromatography at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$18.60
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.
$31.00
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.
$8.37 with Aetna vs $34.03 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.
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 | $8.37 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $9.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $11.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $11.72 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $12.33 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $13.52 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $14.53 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $15.93 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $17.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $17.24 | ↓ -7% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $17.85 | ↓ -4% |
| Geisinger | CHIP | $18.06 | ↓ -3% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $18.24 | ↓ -2% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $18.42 | ↓ -1% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $18.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $19.10 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $19.32 | ↑ +4% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $19.50 | ↑ +5% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $19.50 | ↑ +5% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $19.72 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | First Health | $20.46 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $20.77 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $20.86 | ↑ +12% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $21.97 | ↑ +18% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $21.97 | ↑ +18% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $21.97 | ↑ +18% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $22.52 | ↑ +21% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $24.18 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $24.18 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $24.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $24.80 | ↑ +33% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $25.56 | ↑ +37% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $28.06 | ↑ +51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $34.03 | ↑ +83% |
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Chromatography at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $495.00 | $16.78 – $280.50 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $187.20 | $15.05 – $280.80 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $18.60 | $4.65 – $25.56 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $163.80 | $16.38 – $232.05 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $222.60 | $17.85 – $315.35 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $178.80 | $15.59 – $253.30 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $22.40 | $5.04 – $30.11 |