Microdissection manual at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$1,058.40
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.
$1,764.00
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.
$141.03 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,411.20 with America's Choice — 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 | $141.03 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $321.35 | ↓ -70% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $343.77 | ↓ -68% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $354.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $476.28 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $666.79 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $701.90 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $715.30 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $769.10 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $826.61 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $841.43 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $906.70 | ↓ -14% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $970.20 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $979.02 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $980.78 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $1,164.24 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,181.88 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $1,187.17 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,375.92 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $1,375.92 | ↑ +30% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,411.20 | ↑ +33% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $1,411.20 | ↑ +33% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,058.40 | $238.62 – $1,411.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $604.20 | $66.54 – $906.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $284.40 | $64.94 – $408.16 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $497.40 | $53.00 – $663.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $284.40 | $94.80 – $1,078.82 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,085.60 | $65.64 – $2,780.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $616.80 | $105.68 – $413.27 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $604.20 | $66.25 – $700.39 |