Creatine - sendout at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$90.60
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.
$151.00
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.
$4.58 with UPMC Work Partners vs $1,058.06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.58 | ↓ -95% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $5.06 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $6.37 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $12.41 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $16.45 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $17.39 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $17.39 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $17.39 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $17.39 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $17.39 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $18.09 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $18.26 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $18.78 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18.78 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $19.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $20.03 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $20.03 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $20.52 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $24.53 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $24.53 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $25.85 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $25.85 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $32.90 | ↓ -64% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $32.90 | ↓ -64% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $35.25 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $37.60 | ↓ -58% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $37.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $44.65 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,058.06 | ↑ +1068% |
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Creatine - sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $45.60 | $4.58 – $60.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $33.60 | $4.58 – $44.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $93.00 | $4.58 – $8.89 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $31.80 | $4.21 – $5.01 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $34.20 | $4.15 – $8.71 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $43.80 | $3.25 – $9.04 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $46.80 | $4.34 – $8.97 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $46.20 | $4.30 – $8.97 |