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Treatment inhalation pressurized/nonpressurized acute airway obstruction at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$286.80
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.
$478.00
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.
$37.90 with UPMC Work Partners vs $209.42 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $37.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $40.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $41.87 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $86.94 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $98.28 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $100.16 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $107.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $115.74 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $117.82 | ↓ -59% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $123.75 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $135.85 | ↓ -53% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $137.33 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $149.53 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | First Health | $163.02 | ↓ -43% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $165.49 | ↓ -42% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $166.23 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $168.95 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $169.19 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $192.66 | ↓ -33% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $192.66 | ↓ -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 | $195.81 | ↓ -32% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $197.60 | ↓ -31% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $197.60 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $197.79 | ↓ -31% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $199.73 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $207.48 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $209.40 | ↓ -27% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $209.42 | ↓ -27% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Treatment inhalation pressurized/nonpressurized acute airway obstruction at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $272.40 | $24.67 – $408.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $286.80 | $31.20 – $166.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $74.40 | $31.00 – $209.42 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $71.40 | $24.90 – $209.42 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $337.20 | $24.90 – $477.70 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $418.20 | $24.42 – $522.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $71.40 | $24.90 – $203.61 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $346.40 | $2.65 – $149.53 |