Injection(s) epidural/subarachnoid cervical/thoracic needle placement w/guidance at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$181.20
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.
$302.00
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.
$83.71 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,796.70 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $83.71 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $84.56 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $84.56 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare | $85.41 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $86.67 | ↓ -52% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $86.67 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $87.58 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $88.79 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $91.32 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $91.32 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $92.11 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $93.66 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $120.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $123.98 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $134.51 | ↓ -26% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $152.01 | ↓ -16% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $211.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $226.50 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $241.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $241.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $241.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $241.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $241.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $247.64 | ↑ +37% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $318.15 | ↑ +76% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $771.51 | ↑ +326% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,146.12 | ↑ +533% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,146.12 | ↑ +533% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,395.67 | ↑ +670% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,395.67 | ↑ +670% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,796.70 | ↑ +892% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection(s) epidural/subarachnoid cervical/thoracic needle placement w/guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,048.40 | $113.28 – $2,901.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,048.40 | $113.28 – $2,901.90 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,861.20 | $98.12 – $2,481.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,842.00 | $98.12 – $960.26 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,189.80 | $98.12 – $693.24 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,048.40 | $113.28 – $1,058.50 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $3,417.00 | $98.12 – $713.05 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,085.60 | $98.12 – $892.40 |