Arthrocentesis/aspiration/injection small joint/bursa without ultrasound guidance at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$165.00
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.
$275.00
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.
$18.90 with Aetna vs $284.05 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $18.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $25.02 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $27.14 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $29.66 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $29.96 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $29.96 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $29.96 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare | $30.26 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $30.68 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $30.71 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $30.71 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $31.03 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $31.46 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $32.36 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $32.36 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $32.63 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $42.80 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $74.90 | ↓ -55% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $80.25 | ↓ -51% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $85.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial | $85.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $85.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $85.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $85.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $87.74 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $98.03 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $99.74 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $165.42 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $233.27 | ↑ +41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $233.27 | ↑ +41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $284.05 | ↑ +72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $284.05 | ↑ +72% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Arthrocentesis/aspiration/injection small joint/bursa without ultrasound guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $158.40 | $18.00 – $211.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $310.20 | $18.90 – $465.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $453.60 | $22.86 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $453.60 | $22.86 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $319.20 | $19.80 – $425.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $281.40 | $19.80 – $409.31 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $453.60 | $22.86 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $325.20 | $19.80 – $303.94 |