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1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$218.40
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.
$364.00
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.
$44.91 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,251.30 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $44.91 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $45.36 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $45.36 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $45.36 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare | $45.81 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $46.49 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $46.49 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $46.98 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $47.63 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $48.99 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $48.99 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $49.41 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $64.80 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $113.40 | ↓ -48% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $121.50 | ↓ -44% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $129.60 | ↓ -41% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $129.60 | ↓ -41% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $129.60 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $129.60 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Commercial | $129.60 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $132.84 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $141.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $186.94 | ↓ -14% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $202.83 | ↓ -7% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $229.21 | ↑ +5% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $379.68 | ↑ +74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,091.46 | ↑ +400% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,091.46 | ↑ +400% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,329.11 | ↑ +509% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,329.11 | ↑ +509% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $2,325.85 | ↑ +965% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,251.30 | ↑ +1389% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |