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Skin Biopsy at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$98.40
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.
$164.00
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.
$35.45 with Aetna vs $3,691.97 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 | $35.45 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $35.45 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $37.06 | ↓ -62% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $44.80 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $47.80 | ↓ -51% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $50.31 | ↓ -49% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $54.93 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $57.40 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $60.68 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $60.68 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $60.68 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $60.68 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $60.68 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $62.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $63.11 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $63.71 | ↓ -35% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $65.53 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $66.75 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $71.60 | ↓ -27% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $114.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $114.80 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $116.66 | ↑ +19% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $123.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $128.87 | ↑ +31% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $131.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $131.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $155.80 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $422.41 | ↑ +329% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $422.41 | ↑ +329% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $444.91 | ↑ +352% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $517.40 | ↑ +426% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $517.40 | ↑ +426% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,691.97 | ↑ +3652% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Skin Biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $823.80 | $35.45 – $1,167.05 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $575.40 | $40.93 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $613.80 | $32.23 – $818.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $381.60 | $33.84 – $572.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $357.60 | $31.88 – $2,094.25 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $575.40 | $40.93 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $823.80 | $35.45 – $1,167.05 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $575.40 | $40.93 – $1,016.56 |