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Colonoscopy w/fb removal at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$2,010.60
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.
$3,351.00
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.
$260.75 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,680.80 with InterGroup — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $260.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $260.75 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $260.75 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $267.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $333.06 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $403.98 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $608.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $904.77 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,048.46 | ↓ -48% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $1,121.61 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,135.13 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,146.59 | ↓ -43% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,157.83 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,158.18 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,202.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,213.93 | ↓ -40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,214.04 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,333.36 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,358.83 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,461.04 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $1,570.28 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,598.43 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,678.85 | ↓ -17% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $1,863.16 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $2,211.66 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,245.17 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $2,255.22 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,292.08 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,295.43 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $2,613.78 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,613.78 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $2,680.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,680.80 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Colonoscopy w/fb removal at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,346.60 | $260.75 – $3,324.35 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,141.00 | $260.75 – $4,711.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,934.60 | $260.75 – $12,657.35 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $8,349.60 | $260.75 – $11,828.60 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,431.20 | $260.75 – $2,735.10 |