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Metabolic Blood Panel (Comprehensive) at UPMC Cole

1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$100.80

Cash price

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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.

$168.00

Gross charge

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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.

$6.86 with BCBS of Western NY vs $134.40 with InterGroup — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $6.86 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $10.43 ↓ -90%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $12.27 ↓ -88%
Aetna Commercial $15.84 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid $16.25 ↓ -84%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $17.63 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $19.92 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $46.57 ↓ -54%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $47.04 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $47.04 ↓ -53%
United Healthcare Medicare $47.04 ↓ -53%
Humana Medicare $47.51 ↓ -53%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC) $48.22 ↓ -52%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicaid $48.22 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $48.72 ↓ -52%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $48.95 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $48.95 ↓ -51%
Cigna Medicare $49.39 ↓ -51%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP $50.80 ↓ -50%
PA Health & Wellness Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $50.80 ↓ -50%
Aetna Medicare $51.24 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Commercial $53.00 ↓ -47%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $59.60 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $59.60 ↓ -41%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $67.20 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $72.07 ↓ -29%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $117.60 ↑ +17%
Geisinger Commercial $126.00 ↑ +25%
Galaxy Health Plan Commercial $134.40 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $134.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $134.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO/Auto $134.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup PPO $134.40 ↑ +33%

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Metabolic Blood Panel (Comprehensive) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $282.00 $9.81 – $376.55
UPMC Altoona Altoona $156.00 $10.43 – $208.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $66.60 $3.81 – $99.90
UPMC East Monroeville $216.00 $10.43 – $288.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $451.80 $10.43 – $527.10
UPMC Hanover Hanover $68.40 $10.39 – $99.18
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $68.40 $10.39 – $96.90
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $68.40 $10.45 – $72.07

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