Handle/convey/speciman/office-lab 99000 at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$78.00
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.
$130.00
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.
$4.99 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $91.00 with United Healthcare — 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 | $4.99 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5.04 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $5.04 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare | $5.09 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $5.17 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $5.17 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $5.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $5.29 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $5.44 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5.49 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $7.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $7.20 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $9.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $9.90 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $12.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $13.50 | ↓ -83% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $14.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Commercial | $14.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $14.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $14.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $14.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $14.76 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $23.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $25.47 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $25.47 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $31.01 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $31.01 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $91.00 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Handle/convey/speciman/office-lab 99000 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $23.40 | $7.00 – $36.03 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $23.40 | $7.00 – $7.11 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $23.40 | $4.26 – $5.70 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $28.00 | $15.72 – $15.72 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $17.50 | not published |
| WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital | Waynesboro | $28.00 | $15.72 – $15.72 |
| WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital | Gettysburg | $28.00 | $15.72 – $15.72 |