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Paring/cutting benign hyperkeratotic lesion single 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.

$22.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $993.28 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $22.00 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $22.00 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $22.00 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $22.55 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $28.10 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $34.08 ↓ -85%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $42.29 ↓ -82%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $45.24 ↓ -80%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $46.71 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $93.51 ↓ -59%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $95.29 ↓ -59%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $102.46 ↓ -56%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $110.12 ↓ -52%
Aetna Commercial $112.09 ↓ -51%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $117.73 ↓ -49%
Wirerope Works Commercial $130.66 ↓ -43%
Aetna First Health $155.10 ↓ -33%
Geisinger Commercial $157.45 ↓ -32%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $158.16 ↓ -31%
United Healthcare Commercial $160.74 ↓ -30%
Cigna Commercial $160.97 ↓ -30%
Multiplan Auto $183.30 ↓ -20%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $183.30 ↓ -20%
America's Choice PPO $188.00 ↓ -18%
InterGroup PPO $188.00 ↓ -18%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $191.30 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $193.23 ↓ -16%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $195.12 ↓ -15%
Aetna Medicare $195.12 ↓ -15%
United Healthcare Medicare $202.70 ↓ -12%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $204.58 ↓ -11%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $204.60 ↓ -11%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $993.28 ↑ +331%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Paring/cutting benign hyperkeratotic lesion single at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $347.40 $22.00 – $492.15
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $197.40 $22.00 – $296.10
UPMC Northwest Seneca $453.00 $22.00 – $641.75
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $251.40 $22.00 – $931.20
UPMC Somerset Somerset $288.60 $22.00 – $892.40
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $325.80 $22.00 – $461.55
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $29.20 $6.57 – $993.28

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