Nerve conduction studies 13+ at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$364.80
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.
$608.00
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.
$73.74 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $520.66 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 | $73.74 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $74.48 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $74.48 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $74.48 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare | $75.22 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $76.34 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $76.34 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $77.14 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $78.20 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $80.44 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $80.44 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $81.13 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $106.40 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $168.00 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $186.20 | ↓ -49% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $199.50 | ↓ -45% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $212.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $212.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $212.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $212.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $212.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $218.12 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $242.08 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $246.96 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $296.87 | ↓ -19% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $320.44 | ↓ -12% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $347.67 | ↓ -5% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $392.90 | ↑ +8% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $411.34 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $427.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $427.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $520.66 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $520.66 | ↑ +43% |
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Nerve conduction studies 13+ at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $588.00 | $86.86 – $784.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,112.60 | $182.51 – $3,168.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $328.20 | $74.94 – $812.13 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $328.20 | $109.40 – $558.48 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,756.40 | $93.45 – $3,675.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,078.00 | $92.57 – $720.95 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,693.40 | $240.25 – $531.15 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $328.20 | $113.79 – $811.01 |