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Insert hepatic shunt (tips) at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$9,621.60
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.
$16,036.00
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.
$1,033.93 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $12,828.80 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,033.93 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,704.87 | ↓ -82% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $1,823.82 | ↓ -81% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,883.29 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4,329.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $6,380.72 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $6,502.60 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6,991.70 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $7,514.47 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $7,649.17 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $8,034.04 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $8,819.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $8,916.02 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $10,583.76 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $10,744.12 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $10,792.23 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $10,968.62 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $10,984.66 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $12,508.08 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $12,508.08 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $12,828.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $12,828.80 | ↑ +33% |
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Insert hepatic shunt (tips) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $10,756.80 | $1,658.88 – $15,238.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $7,146.60 | $1,643.23 – $10,719.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $10,154.40 | $969.31 – $14,385.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $11,241.60 | $928.92 – $14,052.00 |