Diagnostic laryngoscopy 31505 at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$259.20
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.
$432.00
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.
$17.46 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 | $17.46 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $17.64 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $17.64 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $17.64 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare | $17.82 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $18.08 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $18.08 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $18.27 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $18.52 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $19.05 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $19.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $19.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $25.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $34.65 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $34.65 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $44.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $47.25 | ↓ -82% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $50.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Commercial | $50.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $50.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $50.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $50.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $51.66 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $90.23 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $300.10 | ↑ +16% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $397.84 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $397.84 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $484.46 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $484.46 | ↑ +87% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $2,325.85 | ↑ +797% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Diagnostic laryngoscopy 31505 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $432.60 | $94.43 – $612.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $432.60 | $98.13 – $612.85 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $432.60 | $98.13 – $300.10 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $432.60 | $94.43 – $300.10 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $432.60 | $75.75 – $300.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $279.60 | $98.51 – $139.57 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $609.00 | $93.83 – $203.60 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $432.60 | $90.23 – $199.88 |