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ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$501.00
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.
$835.00
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.
$152.61 with Aetna vs $18,797.52 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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| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $152.61 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $152.61 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $159.55 | ↓ -68% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $192.83 | ↓ -62% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $216.59 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $236.44 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $258.18 | ↓ -48% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $285.20 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $308.95 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $308.95 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $308.95 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $308.95 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $308.95 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $317.72 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $321.31 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $324.40 | ↓ -35% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $333.67 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $339.85 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $364.56 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $402.80 | ↓ -20% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $409.07 | ↓ -18% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $547.01 | ↑ +9% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $551.50 | ↑ +10% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $584.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $584.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $626.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $668.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $668.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $748.48 | ↑ +49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $748.48 | ↑ +49% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $793.25 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $916.80 | ↑ +83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $916.80 | ↑ +83% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $18,797.52 | ↑ +3652% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,371.00 | $152.61 – $1,828.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,798.20 | $152.61 – $2,547.45 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,165.40 | $152.61 – $2,526.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,828.80 | $65.00 – $2,590.80 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,449.00 | $174.21 – $1,932.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $903.60 | $145.68 – $1,355.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $630.00 | $56.38 – $553.93 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,828.80 | $65.00 – $645.31 |