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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$2,172.00
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.
$3,620.00
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.
$269.64 with UPMC Work Partners vs $2,896.00 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $269.64 | ↓ -88% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $288.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $297.85 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $993.28 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,440.40 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,467.91 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,495.53 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,510.64 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,525.45 | ↓ -30% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,525.45 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,578.32 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,584.69 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,599.35 | ↓ -26% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,599.50 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $1,696.33 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,726.74 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,813.62 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,991.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $2,012.72 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $2,389.20 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,425.40 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $2,436.26 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,476.08 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,479.70 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $2,823.60 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,823.60 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $2,896.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,896.00 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,632.20 | $269.64 – $3,728.95 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,070.40 | $300.65 – $1,605.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,172.00 | $269.64 – $2,896.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,476.20 | $269.64 – $3,507.95 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,765.20 | $300.65 – $6,750.70 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,472.00 | $145.38 – $3,090.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,412.60 | $269.64 – $3,417.85 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,627.20 | $269.64 – $1,521.90 |