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Pentobarbital sodium inj at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$8.00
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.
$10.00
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.
$2.70 with Aetna vs $9.00 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.
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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| Aetna | Medicare | $2.70 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.71 | ↓ -66% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $3.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3.98 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $4.05 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4.36 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $4.69 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $4.77 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5.01 | ↓ -37% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $5.50 | ↓ -31% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $5.56 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | First Health | $6.60 | ↓ -18% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $6.70 | ↓ -16% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $6.73 | ↓ -16% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $6.84 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6.85 | ↓ -14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $7.80 | ↓ -3% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $7.80 | ↓ -3% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $8.00 | ↑ +0% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $8.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $9.00 | ↑ +13% |
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Pentobarbital sodium inj at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $63.60 | $3.33 – $71.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $115.20 | $1.50 – $9.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $63.60 | $3.36 – $32.30 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $42.00 | $3.29 – $18.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $115.20 | $1.80 – $9.00 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $63.60 | $3.29 – $32.30 |