Hemoglobin at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$19.20
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.
$32.00
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.
$1.54 with BCBS of Western NY vs $53.00 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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| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $1.54 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.35 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $3.39 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3.56 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $4.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $4.87 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $5.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $8.59 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $8.68 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $8.68 | ↓ -55% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $8.68 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Medicare | $8.77 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $8.90 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $8.90 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $8.99 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $9.11 | ↓ -53% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $9.37 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $9.37 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.46 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $10.99 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $10.99 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $12.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $13.38 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $13.38 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $19.04 | ↓ -1% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $21.70 | ↑ +13% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $23.25 | ↑ +21% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $24.80 | ↑ +29% |
| Humana | Commercial | $24.80 | ↑ +29% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $24.80 | ↑ +29% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $24.80 | ↑ +29% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $24.80 | ↑ +29% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $53.00 | ↑ +176% |
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Hemoglobin at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $27.60 | $2.35 – $35.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $16.20 | $0.86 – $24.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $12.60 | $2.35 – $17.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $12.60 | $2.35 – $19.04 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $34.80 | $2.35 – $46.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $55.20 | $2.35 – $4.55 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $24.00 | $2.15 – $3.71 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $12.60 | $2.35 – $4.40 |