Prep skin to 100cm2 trk/ext at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$1,098.60
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.
$1,831.00
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.
$179.63 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,395.00 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 | $179.63 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $181.44 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $181.44 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare | $183.25 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $185.98 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $185.98 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $187.92 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $190.51 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $195.96 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $195.96 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $197.64 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $259.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $356.40 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $356.40 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $445.52 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $453.60 | ↓ -59% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $486.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $512.68 | ↓ -53% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $518.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Commercial | $518.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $518.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $518.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $518.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $531.36 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $1,041.88 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,520.58 | ↑ +38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,520.58 | ↑ +38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,851.66 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,851.66 | ↑ +69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,395.00 | ↑ +209% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Prep skin to 100cm2 trk/ext at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,460.00 | $466.25 – $3,485.00 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,460.00 | $466.25 – $3,395.00 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $2,460.00 | $466.25 – $3,395.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $5,034.60 | $445.52 – $1,883.47 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $445.52 – $1,883.47 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $466.25 – $3,395.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $445.52 – $1,918.35 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $445.52 – $2,536.45 |