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Glucose body fluid 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

$52.20

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.

$87.00

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.

$3.89 with UPMC Work Partners vs $69.60 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 $3.89 ↓ -93%
Geisinger CHIP $3.93 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $3.97 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.01 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.05 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $4.05 ↓ -92%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $4.16 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.21 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.24 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.24 ↓ -92%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $4.29 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.77 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4.77 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $4.77 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.89 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $5.56 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $6.10 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $7.40 ↓ -86%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $26.62 ↓ -49%
Aetna Commercial $31.32 ↓ -40%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $32.89 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $34.62 ↓ -34%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $37.93 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $40.77 ↓ -22%
Cigna Commercial $44.72 ↓ -14%
United Healthcare Commercial $48.28 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $48.37 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $57.42 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $58.29 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $58.55 ↑ +12%
Multiplan Auto $67.86 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $67.86 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $69.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $69.60 ↑ +33%

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Glucose body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $123.00 $3.65 – $174.25
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $100.20 $3.28 – $150.30
UPMC Muncy Muncy $52.20 $3.89 – $69.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $34.80 $3.56 – $49.30
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $156.00 $3.89 – $221.00
UPMC Somerset Somerset $21.00 $3.89 – $26.25
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $74.40 $3.39 – $105.40
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $63.20 $3.89 – $71.10

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