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Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$27.60
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.
$46.00
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.
$3.06 with Aetna vs $9.82 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 | PEBTF Custom Network | $3.06 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3.78 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3.98 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4.36 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $4.69 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5.14 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $5.50 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5.55 | ↓ -80% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $5.56 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | First Health | $6.60 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $6.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $6.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $6.73 | ↓ -76% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $7.80 | ↓ -72% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $7.80 | ↓ -72% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $8.00 | ↓ -71% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $8.00 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.73 | ↓ -68% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $9.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $9.18 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $9.27 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.36 | ↓ -66% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $9.36 | ↓ -66% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $9.64 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $9.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $9.82 | ↓ -64% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $9.82 | ↓ -64% |
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Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $32.40 | $0.02 – $45.90 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $18.00 | $0.02 – $27.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $27.60 | $6.69 – $36.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $10.20 | $0.05 – $14.45 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $17.40 | $0.02 – $24.65 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $7.80 | $0.02 – $9.82 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $28.20 | $0.02 – $39.95 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $34.00 | $6.69 – $38.02 |