Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$444.60
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.
$741.00
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.
$259.35 with UPMC Health Plan vs $16,681.39 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 | CHIP | $259.35 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $274.17 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $274.17 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $274.17 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $274.17 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $274.17 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $281.95 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $285.14 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $287.88 | ↓ -35% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $296.10 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $301.59 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $323.52 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $363.02 | ↓ -18% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $407.55 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $407.55 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $448.22 | ↑ +1% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $495.13 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $518.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $518.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $555.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $592.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $592.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $703.95 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,417.29 | ↑ +219% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,417.29 | ↑ +219% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,704.57 | ↑ +283% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,736.01 | ↑ +290% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,736.01 | ↑ +290% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $16,681.39 | ↑ +3652% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $411.00 | $83.44 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $666.60 | $453.13 – $7,348.95 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $666.60 | $240.68 – $3,650.76 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,189.20 | $492.33 – $4,015.84 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $4,500.50 | $105.00 – $7,882.34 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $448.22 – $3,942.82 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | not published | $448.22 – $3,942.82 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $469.07 – $5,861.07 |