Biopsy/soft tissue/neck or thorax 21550 at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$1,345.20
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.
$2,242.00
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.
$37.95 with UPMC Health Plan vs $50,471.90 with Cigna — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $37.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $37.95 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $39.67 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $47.95 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $51.16 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $53.86 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $58.79 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $220.85 | ↓ -84% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $243.96 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $784.70 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $829.54 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $829.54 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $829.54 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $829.54 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $829.54 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $853.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $862.72 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $871.02 | ↓ -35% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $895.90 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $912.49 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $978.86 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,098.36 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,116.59 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,116.59 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,261.81 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,367.70 | ↑ +2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,367.70 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,569.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $1,569.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $1,681.50 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $1,793.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $1,793.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $2,129.90 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $50,471.90 | ↑ +3652% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Biopsy/soft tissue/neck or thorax 21550 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,822.80 | $34.50 – $2,430.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $281.40 | $36.23 – $771.51 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,767.80 | $37.95 – $3,690.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,141.40 | $37.95 – $2,246.66 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,198.60 | $37.95 – $1,621.93 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,720.20 | $37.95 – $2,085.34 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,935.00 | $37.95 – $1,668.28 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2,541.00 | $37.95 – $1,699.17 |