Aspirate pleura without imaging 32554 at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$810.60
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.
$1,351.00
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.
$63.76 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,461.32 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 | $63.76 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $64.40 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $64.40 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $64.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare | $65.04 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $66.01 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $66.01 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $66.70 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $67.62 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $69.55 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $69.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $70.15 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $92.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $126.50 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $126.50 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $161.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $172.50 | ↓ -79% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $184.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Commercial | $184.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $184.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $184.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $184.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $188.60 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $747.60 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $771.51 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,027.04 | ↑ +27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,027.04 | ↑ +27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,250.66 | ↑ +54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,250.66 | ↑ +54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,461.32 | ↑ +80% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Aspirate pleura without imaging 32554 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,823.40 | $296.09 – $2,431.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,632.60 | $212.67 – $2,448.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,861.20 | $325.29 – $2,636.70 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,861.20 | $602.09 – $2,636.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,164.60 | $298.91 – $1,552.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,507.80 | $296.09 – $857.29 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,611.00 | $534.56 – $747.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,861.20 | $584.71 – $1,461.32 |