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Convert nephrostomy catheter at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$3,489.60
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.
$5,816.00
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.
$993.28 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $4,652.80 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $993.28 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,153.84 | ↓ -67% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $1,234.34 | ↓ -65% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,274.59 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,972.15 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,992.07 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,011.60 | ↓ -42% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,011.60 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,089.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,109.06 | ↓ -40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,109.25 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,314.19 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $2,358.39 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,535.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $2,725.38 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,774.23 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,913.82 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3,198.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $3,233.70 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $3,838.56 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,896.72 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $3,914.17 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,978.14 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,983.96 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $4,536.48 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $4,536.48 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $4,652.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,652.80 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Convert nephrostomy catheter at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $8,884.20 | $608.17 – $12,585.95 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,941.60 | $602.44 – $2,912.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,643.00 | $1,153.84 – $3,744.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,699.40 | $608.17 – $12,324.15 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,953.00 | $596.34 – $6,191.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,572.20 | $608.17 – $3,643.95 |