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Culture fungi skin/hair/nail at UPMC Williamsport

700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$70.80

Cash price

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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.

$118.00

Gross charge

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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.

$7.62 with UPMC Work Partners vs $94.40 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $7.62 ↓ -89%
Geisinger CHIP $7.71 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $7.79 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $7.86 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $7.94 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicare $7.94 ↓ -89%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $8.15 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.25 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.33 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.33 ↓ -88%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $8.42 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.67 ↓ -85%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.67 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $10.67 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $10.94 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $12.42 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $13.63 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $16.53 ↓ -77%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $36.11 ↓ -49%
Aetna Commercial $42.48 ↓ -40%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $44.60 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $46.95 ↓ -34%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $51.45 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $55.29 ↓ -22%
Cigna Commercial $60.65 ↓ -14%
United Healthcare Commercial $65.49 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $65.61 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $77.88 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $79.06 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $79.41 ↑ +12%
Multiplan Auto $92.04 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $92.04 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $94.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $94.40 ↑ +33%

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Culture fungi skin/hair/nail at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $253.20 $7.16 – $358.70
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $80.40 $6.43 – $120.60
UPMC Muncy Muncy $70.80 $7.62 – $94.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $80.40 $6.99 – $113.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $520.20 $7.62 – $736.95
UPMC Somerset Somerset $43.20 $7.62 – $54.00
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $79.80 $6.66 – $113.05
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $85.60 $7.62 – $96.30

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