Gi trc img intral esophagus at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$1,794.60
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.
$2,991.00
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.
$78.17 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,131.94 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $78.17 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $78.96 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $78.96 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare | $79.75 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $80.93 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $80.93 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $81.78 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $82.91 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $85.28 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $85.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $86.01 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $112.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $155.10 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $155.10 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $197.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $211.50 | ↓ -88% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $225.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Commercial | $225.60 | ↓ -87% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $225.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $225.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $225.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $231.24 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $365.40 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $814.11 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $837.48 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,076.01 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,393.26 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,393.26 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,131.94 | ↑ +130% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,131.94 | ↑ +130% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Gi trc img intral esophagus at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $6,253.20 | $365.40 – $8,337.60 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $6,660.60 | $365.40 – $1,170.52 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,724.00 | $288.54 – $1,306.87 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $6,253.20 | $530.24 – $1,251.17 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,183.60 | $590.79 – $1,519.62 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $6,183.60 | $448.37 – $1,170.52 |