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Morphometric analysis in situ hybridization computer-assisted per specimen each multiplex stain at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$322.80
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.
$538.00
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.
$151.72 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $430.40 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 | $151.72 | ↓ -53% |
| Geisinger | CHIP | $163.37 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $164.97 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $166.64 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $168.27 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $168.27 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $169.30 | ↓ -48% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $169.30 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $169.30 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $173.53 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $174.81 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $176.42 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $176.44 | ↓ -45% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $203.36 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $214.07 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $216.24 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $218.16 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $234.57 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $252.11 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $256.63 | ↓ -20% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $262.29 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $265.77 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $276.53 | ↓ -14% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $284.32 | ↓ -12% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $293.59 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $298.59 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $299.13 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $355.08 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $360.46 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $362.07 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $419.64 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $419.64 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $430.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $430.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Morphometric analysis in situ hybridization computer-assisted per specimen each multiplex stain at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $372.60 | $100.15 – $558.90 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $322.80 | $80.70 – $430.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $616.20 | $148.16 – $872.95 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $419.40 | $101.11 – $444.55 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $799.20 | $101.11 – $1,132.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $337.20 | $99.14 – $421.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $397.80 | $101.11 – $563.55 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $337.60 | $75.96 – $379.80 |