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Susceptibility enzyme detection per enzyme 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

$16.80

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.

$28.00

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.

$4.70 with UPMC Work Partners vs $22.40 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 $4.70 ↓ -72%
Geisinger CHIP $4.75 ↓ -72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $4.80 ↓ -71%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.84 ↓ -71%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.89 ↓ -71%
Aetna Medicare $4.89 ↓ -71%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $5.02 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.08 ↓ -70%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $5.13 ↓ -69%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5.13 ↓ -69%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $5.19 ↓ -69%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $5.78 ↓ -66%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $5.78 ↓ -66%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $5.78 ↓ -66%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $5.92 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $6.72 ↓ -60%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $7.38 ↓ -56%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $8.57 ↓ -49%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $8.95 ↓ -47%
Aetna Commercial $10.08 ↓ -40%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $10.58 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $11.14 ↓ -34%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $12.21 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $13.12 ↓ -22%
Cigna Commercial $14.39 ↓ -14%
United Healthcare Commercial $15.54 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $15.57 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $18.48 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $18.76 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $18.84 ↑ +12%
Multiplan Auto $21.84 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $21.84 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $22.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $22.40 ↑ +33%

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Susceptibility enzyme detection per enzyme at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $68.40 $4.41 – $96.90
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $47.40 $3.96 – $71.10
UPMC Muncy Muncy $16.80 $4.20 – $22.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $78.60 $4.31 – $111.35
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $64.80 $4.70 – $91.80
UPMC Somerset Somerset $25.80 $4.70 – $32.25
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $55.80 $4.10 – $79.05
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $20.40 $4.59 – $22.95

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