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Renal function panel 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

$156.00

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.

$260.00

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.

$8.58 with UPMC Work Partners vs $208.00 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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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 Work Partners Workers Comp $8.58 ↓ -95%
Geisinger CHIP $8.68 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $8.77 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.85 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.94 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $8.94 ↓ -94%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $9.18 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.29 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $9.37 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.37 ↓ -94%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $9.48 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.56 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.56 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $10.56 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $10.82 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $12.29 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $13.49 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $16.36 ↓ -90%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $79.56 ↓ -49%
Aetna Commercial $93.60 ↓ -40%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $98.28 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $103.45 ↓ -34%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $113.36 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $121.84 ↓ -22%
Cigna Commercial $133.64 ↓ -14%
United Healthcare Commercial $144.30 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $144.56 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $171.60 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $174.20 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $174.98 ↑ +12%
Multiplan Auto $202.80 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $202.80 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $208.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $208.00 ↑ +33%

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Renal function panel at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $212.40 $8.07 – $300.90
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $202.80 $7.24 – $304.20
UPMC Muncy Muncy $156.00 $8.58 – $208.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $105.00 $7.87 – $148.75
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $424.20 $8.58 – $600.95
UPMC Somerset Somerset $56.40 $8.58 – $63.75
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $115.20 $7.49 – $163.20
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $188.80 $8.58 – $212.40

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