Reticulocyte automated at UPMC Kane

4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537

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

$21.60

Cash price

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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.

$36.00

Gross charge

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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.

$3.95 with UPMC Work Partners vs $810.43 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.

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Payer
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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
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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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.95 ↓ -82%
Focus Healthcare Workers Compensation $4.36 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.95 ↓ -77%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $4.95 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $5.17 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Commercial $5.50 ↓ -75%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.25 ↓ -71%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $6.67 ↓ -69%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.02 ↓ -68%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $7.67 ↓ -64%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $12.60 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $13.32 ↓ -38%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $13.32 ↓ -38%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage $13.32 ↓ -38%
Highmark BCBS of PA Together Blue Medicare Advantage $13.32 ↓ -38%
Highmark BCBS of PA Security Blue Medicare Advantage $13.32 ↓ -38%
Aetna of PA Medicare $13.85 ↓ -36%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $13.99 ↓ -35%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $14.39 ↓ -33%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $14.39 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $14.65 ↓ -32%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $15.46 ↓ -28%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $15.72 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $17.22 ↓ -20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $17.22 ↓ -20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $21.09 ↓ -2%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $21.09 ↓ -2%
Cigna Commercial $25.20 ↑ +17%
Horizon Health Plan Commercial $25.20 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation $27.00 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $28.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Commercial $28.80 ↑ +33%
Focus Healthcare Disability/PPO/Auto $34.20 ↑ +58%
Cigna Medicare $810.43 ↑ +3652%

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Reticulocyte automated at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $55.20 $3.95 – $73.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $33.00 $1.44 – $49.50
UPMC East Monroeville $84.60 $3.95 – $112.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $68.40 $3.95 – $10.87
UPMC Northwest Seneca $33.00 $3.62 – $5.17
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $33.00 $3.57 – $7.49
UPMC Jameson New Castle $16.80 $3.95 – $11.07
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $33.00 $3.73 – $10.98

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