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Ultrasound breast unilateral limited (both sides) at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$479.40
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.
$799.00
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.
$52.40 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $639.20 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.
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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $52.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $84.77 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $85.63 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $86.47 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $86.47 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $89.83 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $90.66 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $90.67 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $116.07 | ↓ -76% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $124.16 | ↓ -74% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $128.21 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $317.92 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $323.99 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $348.36 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $374.41 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $381.12 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $400.30 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $439.45 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $444.24 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $527.34 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $535.33 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $537.73 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $546.52 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $547.32 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $623.22 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $623.22 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $639.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $639.20 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ultrasound breast unilateral limited (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $894.00 | $34.92 – $1,266.50 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $370.80 | $34.59 – $556.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $479.40 | $52.40 – $639.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $400.20 | $54.53 – $566.95 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,187.40 | $34.92 – $1,682.15 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $372.60 | $34.24 – $116.07 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,078.80 | $34.92 – $1,528.30 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $630.40 | $52.40 – $709.20 |