Tc-99m sulfur colloid at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$373.80
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.
$623.00
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.
$172.70 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $713.83 with BCBS of Western NY — 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 | $172.70 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $174.44 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $174.44 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $174.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare | $176.18 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $178.80 | ↓ -52% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $178.80 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $180.67 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $183.16 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $188.40 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $188.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $190.01 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $249.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $304.80 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $304.80 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $304.80 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $304.80 | ↓ -18% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $342.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $342.65 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $419.55 | ↑ +12% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $436.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $467.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $498.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $498.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $498.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $498.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $498.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $510.86 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $713.83 | ↑ +91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Tc-99m sulfur colloid at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $235.20 | $119.48 – $2,254.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $254.40 | $106.00 – $419.55 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $469.20 | $107.13 – $664.70 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $469.20 | $156.40 – $664.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $681.00 | $120.62 – $908.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $359.40 | $119.48 – $1,504.51 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $186.00 | $310.11 – $507.70 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $469.20 | $384.52 – $419.55 |