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Cystoscopy & ureter catheter at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
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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.
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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.
$127.60 with Geisinger vs $2,109.25 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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| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $127.60 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $127.60 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $127.60 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $130.79 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $162.98 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $197.69 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $462.57 | — |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $494.84 | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $510.98 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $880.64 | — |
| 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 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,992.07 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,011.60 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,011.60 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,089.72 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,109.06 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,109.25 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cystoscopy & ureter catheter at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,706.20 | $127.60 – $5,250.45 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,417.00 | $127.60 – $5,125.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,281.00 | $127.60 – $6,064.75 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,034.60 | $127.60 – $7,132.35 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $6,144.60 | $127.60 – $791.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,546.00 | $127.60 – $5,023.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,835.20 | $127.60 – $3,189.60 |