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Ventilator initial day at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$1,735.20
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.
$2,892.00
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.
$84.16 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,313.60 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 | $84.16 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $130.31 | ↓ -92% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $139.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $143.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $636.46 | ↓ -63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $642.89 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $649.19 | ↓ -63% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $649.19 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $674.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $680.64 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $680.70 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,150.73 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1,172.71 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,260.91 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $1,355.19 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,379.48 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,448.89 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,590.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $1,607.95 | ↓ -7% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,755.14 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | First Health | $1,908.72 | ↑ +10% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $1,946.32 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,978.13 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,981.02 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $2,255.76 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,255.76 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $2,313.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,313.60 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ventilator initial day at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,650.60 | $140.11 – $2,475.90 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,735.20 | $84.16 – $2,313.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $691.80 | $130.31 – $980.05 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,269.20 | $130.31 – $3,214.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,397.00 | $78.90 – $3,395.75 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,585.80 | $75.61 – $1,982.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,021.20 | $130.31 – $1,446.70 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,098.40 | $84.16 – $2,360.70 |