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Warde adenosine deaminase pleural fluid 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

$87.60

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.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$146.00

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.

$6.32 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $116.80 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $6.32 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.01 ↓ -91%
Geisinger CHIP $8.10 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $8.18 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.26 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $8.34 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.34 ↓ -90%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $8.57 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.67 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.75 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.75 ↓ -90%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $8.84 ↓ -90%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $44.68 ↓ -49%
Aetna Commercial $52.56 ↓ -40%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $55.19 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $58.09 ↓ -34%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $63.66 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $68.42 ↓ -22%
Cigna Commercial $75.04 ↓ -14%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $80.30 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare Commercial $81.03 ↓ -8%
Wirerope Works Commercial $81.18 ↓ -7%
Aetna First Health $96.36 ↑ +10%
Geisinger Commercial $97.82 ↑ +12%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $98.26 ↑ +12%
Multiplan Auto $113.88 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $113.88 ↑ +30%
America's Choice PPO $116.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $116.80 ↑ +33%

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Warde adenosine deaminase pleural fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $236.40 $7.53 – $316.20
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $142.20 $6.75 – $213.30
UPMC Muncy Muncy $87.60 $6.32 – $116.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $54.00 $7.35 – $72.25
UPMC Somerset Somerset $42.00 $5.68 – $52.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $71.40 $6.99 – $101.15
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $105.60 $6.32 – $118.80

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