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Hemoglobin at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$27.60
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.
$46.00
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.
$2.35 with UPMC Work Partners vs $23.20 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.35 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | CHIP | $2.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $2.39 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2.42 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $2.51 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2.54 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2.56 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2.56 | ↓ -91% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $2.59 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $3.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3.55 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3.55 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $3.64 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $4.13 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $4.54 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $5.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $8.87 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $10.44 | ↓ -62% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $10.96 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $11.54 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $12.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $13.59 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $14.91 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $16.09 | ↓ -42% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $16.12 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | First Health | $19.14 | ↓ -31% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $19.43 | ↓ -30% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $19.52 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $22.62 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $22.62 | ↓ -18% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $23.20 | ↓ -16% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $23.20 | ↓ -16% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Hemoglobin at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $55.80 | $2.20 – $79.05 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $61.20 | $1.98 – $91.80 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $45.60 | $2.35 – $60.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $24.00 | $2.15 – $34.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $12.60 | $2.35 – $15.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $37.20 | $2.05 – $52.70 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $45.60 | $2.35 – $24.07 |