Destruction benign lesions < 14 lesions at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$112.20
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.
$187.00
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.
$24.12 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 | $24.12 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $24.36 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $24.36 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $24.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare | $24.60 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $24.97 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $24.97 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $25.23 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $25.58 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $26.31 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $26.31 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $26.54 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $34.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $51.45 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $60.90 | ↓ -46% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $65.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $68.11 | ↓ -39% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $69.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $69.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $69.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $69.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $69.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $71.34 | ↓ -36% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $73.89 | ↓ -34% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $83.51 | ↓ -26% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $84.13 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $401.13 | ↑ +258% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $496.40 | ↑ +342% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $496.40 | ↑ +342% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $604.49 | ↑ +439% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $604.49 | ↑ +439% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $2,325.85 | ↑ +1973% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Destruction benign lesions < 14 lesions at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $52.20 | $43.50 – $130.12 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $718.80 | $53.90 – $958.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $714.00 | $53.90 – $275.52 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $732.60 | $53.90 – $253.13 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $127.20 | $53.90 – $471.91 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $403.20 | $53.90 – $204.60 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $583.80 | $53.90 – $208.38 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $593.40 | $53.90 – $208.38 |