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Dextrose 5 % in water (d5w) intravenous solution (non-pvc) at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$60.40
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.
$75.50
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.
$1.81 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $13.50 with Three Rivers Provider Network — 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1.81 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1.81 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1.81 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1.81 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1.86 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1.99 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4.05 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.07 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $4.49 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $5.97 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $6.08 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6.54 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $7.03 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $7.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7.51 | ↓ -88% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $8.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | First Health | $9.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $10.05 | ↓ -83% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $10.10 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $10.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $10.28 | ↓ -83% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $11.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $11.70 | ↓ -81% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $12.00 | ↓ -80% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $12.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $13.50 | ↓ -78% |
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Dextrose 5 % in water (d5w) intravenous solution (non-pvc) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $47.40 | $0.42 – $20.39 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $60.40 | $1.81 – $14.18 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $80.80 | $0.42 – $27.69 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $119.40 | $1.14 – $20.59 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $119.40 | $1.14 – $20.59 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $61.20 | $0.42 – $20.59 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $60.40 | $0.90 – $4.50 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $119.40 | $1.81 – $20.17 |