Bx thyroid/percutan core needle 60100 at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$93.60
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.
$156.00
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.
$43.24 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,325.85 with BCBS of Western NY — 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 | $43.24 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $43.68 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $43.68 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare | $44.12 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $44.77 | ↓ -52% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $44.77 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $45.24 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $45.86 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $47.17 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $47.17 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $47.58 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $62.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $68.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $91.04 | ↓ -3% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $98.77 | ↑ +6% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $109.20 | ↑ +17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $111.63 | ↑ +19% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $117.00 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $124.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $124.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $124.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $124.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $124.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $127.92 | ↑ +37% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $203.91 | ↑ +118% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $489.00 | ↑ +422% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $489.00 | ↑ +422% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $595.47 | ↑ +536% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $595.47 | ↑ +536% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $637.67 | ↑ +581% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $2,325.85 | ↑ +2385% |
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Bx thyroid/percutan core needle 60100 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $445.20 | $65.50 – $593.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,265.40 | $68.78 – $1,898.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $924.60 | $83.19 – $1,309.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $924.60 | $83.19 – $958.92 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,122.60 | $72.05 – $217.14 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,240.20 | $72.05 – $704.33 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $924.60 | $83.19 – $1,075.42 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,180.80 | $72.05 – $724.45 |