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Methacholine chloride 0.0625 mg/ml nebulization soln 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

$230.40

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.

$384.00

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.

$1.75 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $6.08 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.

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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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.75 ↓ -99%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.75 ↓ -99%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $1.75 ↓ -99%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $1.75 ↓ -99%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1.81 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicare $1.82 ↓ -99%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1.83 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1.93 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1.93 ↓ -99%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $2.02 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $2.69 ↓ -99%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $2.74 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.94 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $3.16 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial $3.22 ↓ -99%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3.38 ↓ -99%
Wirerope Works Commercial $3.75 ↓ -98%
Aetna First Health $4.46 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Commercial $4.52 ↓ -98%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $4.54 ↓ -98%
Cigna Commercial $4.62 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Commercial $4.62 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Auto $5.26 ↓ -98%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $5.26 ↓ -98%
America's Choice PPO $5.40 ↓ -98%
InterGroup PPO $5.40 ↓ -98%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $6.08 ↓ -97%

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Methacholine chloride 0.0625 mg/ml nebulization soln at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Muncy Muncy $463.20 $0.75 – $4.50
UPMC Northwest Seneca $255.60 $1.11 – $3.83
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $255.60 $0.88 – $3.40
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,561.40 $0.72 – $3.40
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $197.40 $0.88 – $279.65
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $463.20 $0.90 – $4.50

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