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Incision & drainage hematoma/seroma/fluid collection at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$3,349.80
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.
$5,583.00
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.
$25.85 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,668.28 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $25.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $25.85 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $25.85 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $26.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $33.02 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $40.05 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $172.24 | ↓ -95% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $184.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $190.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $647.78 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $660.15 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $709.81 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $762.88 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $776.56 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $792.32 | ↓ -76% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $815.63 | ↓ -76% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $905.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | First Health | $1,074.48 | ↓ -68% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,090.76 | ↓ -67% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $1,095.64 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,113.55 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,115.18 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $1,269.84 | ↓ -62% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,269.84 | ↓ -62% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $1,302.40 | ↓ -61% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,302.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,559.84 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,575.59 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,591.04 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,591.04 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,652.83 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,668.12 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,668.28 | ↓ -50% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Incision & drainage hematoma/seroma/fluid collection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,386.00 | $25.85 – $1,961.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,386.00 | $25.85 – $2,079.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,349.80 | $25.85 – $4,466.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,223.40 | $25.85 – $1,733.15 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,416.00 | $25.85 – $2,006.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,080.80 | $25.85 – $2,601.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,226.40 | $25.85 – $1,737.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,349.80 | $23.40 – $792.32 |