Sterile gauze <= 16 sq in at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$8.40
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.
$14.00
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.
$0.29 with UPMC Work Partners vs $315.17 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $0.29 | ↓ -97% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $0.32 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $0.65 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $0.65 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $0.79 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $0.79 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4.90 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $5.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $5.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $5.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $5.18 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $5.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5.33 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5.39 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $5.44 | ↓ -35% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5.59 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $5.70 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $6.11 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $6.86 | ↓ -18% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $7.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $7.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $9.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $9.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $10.50 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $11.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $11.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $13.30 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $315.17 | ↑ +3652% |
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Sterile gauze <= 16 sq in at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1.20 | $0.22 – $0.29 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $0.60 | $0.29 – $0.81 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $0.60 | $0.29 – $0.67 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $12.00 | $0.11 – $0.67 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $0.60 | $0.23 – $0.98 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2.40 | $0.14 – $1.09 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1.80 | $0.15 – $0.29 |