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Plmt biliary drainage cath at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$2,475.00
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.
$4,125.00
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.
$364.49 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,633.70 with PA Health & Wellness — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $364.49 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $364.49 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $364.49 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $373.60 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $465.55 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $564.69 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $993.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,641.34 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,672.69 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,798.50 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $1,932.97 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,967.62 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,066.62 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,116.50 | ↓ -14% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $2,264.17 | ↓ -9% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $2,293.50 | ↓ -7% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $2,338.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | First Health | $2,722.50 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,763.75 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $2,776.12 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,821.50 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,825.62 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $3,217.50 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $3,217.50 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $3,300.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,300.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $3,397.51 | ↑ +37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $3,431.83 | ↑ +39% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,465.48 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,465.48 | ↑ +40% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,600.06 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,633.37 | ↑ +47% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,633.70 | ↑ +47% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Plmt biliary drainage cath at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $9,337.80 | $364.49 – $13,228.55 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,144.20 | $364.49 – $6,216.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,424.80 | $364.49 – $9,101.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $7,503.60 | $364.49 – $9,379.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,655.40 | $364.49 – $6,595.15 |