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Screening Colonoscopy (average risk) at UPMC Horizon-Greenville

110 N Main St, Greenville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225048838

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

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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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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.

$699.00 with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $2,924.91 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.

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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

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
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Access PPO/Blue Preferred HMO/HIC $699.00
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $778.20
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $895.11
Aetna Medicare $895.29
Aetna of PA Medicare $912.67
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $912.67
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $912.67
United Healthcare Medicare $930.05
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $938.66
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $938.75
Cigna Medicare $938.75
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $938.75
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,207.23
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $1,487.46
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,631.07
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2,182.77
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,924.91
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Screening Colonoscopy (average risk) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,800.00 $626.45 – $2,550.00
UPMC East Monroeville $1,440.00 $626.45 – $1,920.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,440.00 $360.00 – $1,680.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,440.00 $313.61 – $2,160.00
UPMC Cole Coudersport $633.00 $292.45 – $1,041.88
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,440.00 $432.00 – $2,208.00
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $1,440.00 $626.45 – $2,040.00
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1,512.00 $378.00 – $2,268.00

All Pennsylvania hospitals for this procedure →