Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$1,864.20
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.
$3,107.00
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.
$500.35 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $5,356.10 with United Healthcare — 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 | $500.35 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $505.40 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $505.40 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $505.40 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare | $510.45 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $530.67 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $545.83 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $545.83 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $550.52 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $649.08 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,263.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,353.75 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,444.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,444.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $1,444.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,444.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $1,444.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,480.10 | ↓ -21% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,116.32 | ↑ +14% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2,116.32 | ↑ +14% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $2,116.32 | ↑ +14% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $2,116.32 | ↑ +14% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $2,116.32 | ↑ +14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,254.06 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,254.06 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,254.06 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,254.06 | ↑ +21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $2,327.96 | ↑ +25% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,345.32 | ↑ +26% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,356.10 | ↑ +187% |
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Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $6,097.60 | $294.40 – $6,097.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $6,332.80 | $763.57 – $7,124.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,186.20 | $270.85 – $3,386.11 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,186.20 | $395.40 – $2,603.08 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $19,696.80 | $297.20 – $26,262.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,949.60 | $294.40 – $2,285.63 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,186.20 | $2,095.16 – $3,386.11 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $5,934.00 | $1,157.65 – $2,285.63 |