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X-ray thoracolumbar spine >=2 views at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$335.40
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.
$559.00
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.
$21.12 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $447.20 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 | $21.12 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $29.15 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $29.15 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $29.15 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $29.88 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $37.23 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $45.16 | ↓ -87% |
| 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 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $85.63 | ↓ -74% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $86.47 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $86.47 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $89.83 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $90.66 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $90.67 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $95.77 | ↓ -71% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $102.45 | ↓ -69% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $105.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $222.43 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $226.67 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $243.72 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $261.95 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $266.64 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $280.06 | ↓ -16% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $310.80 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $368.94 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $374.53 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $376.21 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $382.36 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $382.92 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $436.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $436.02 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $447.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $447.20 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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X-ray thoracolumbar spine >=2 views at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $396.00 | $29.15 – $561.00 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $456.60 | $29.15 – $684.90 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $335.40 | $21.12 – $447.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $686.40 | $19.80 – $972.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $188.40 | $18.98 – $235.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $405.00 | $29.15 – $573.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $405.60 | $21.12 – $456.30 |