CT guidance for needle placement at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$2,904.60
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.
$4,841.00
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.
$130.88 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,872.80 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 | $130.88 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $174.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $174.66 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $174.66 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $179.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $223.09 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $270.59 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $468.73 | ↓ -84% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $501.43 | ↓ -83% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $517.78 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,307.07 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,926.23 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,963.03 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,110.68 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $2,268.49 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,309.16 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,425.34 | ↓ -17% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $2,691.60 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $3,195.06 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,243.47 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $3,257.99 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,311.24 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,316.09 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $3,775.98 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $3,775.98 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $3,872.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,872.80 | ↑ +33% |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,565.40 | $102.25 – $2,087.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $914.40 | $133.95 – $1,295.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $979.20 | $146.14 – $1,305.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $914.40 | $49.60 – $1,840.10 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,392.20 | $174.66 – $3,189.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,166.40 | $174.66 – $468.73 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,516.20 | $174.66 – $1,086.24 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $914.40 | $133.95 – $490.53 |