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Aldesleukin injection at UPMC Northwest

100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440

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

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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.

$8,017.43

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.

$2,895.09 with UPMC Work Partners vs $6,814.82 with Humana — 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 $2,895.09
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $2,945.86
Aetna EBR ASO $3,206.97
Cigna Commercial $3,206.97
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $3,629.52
InterGroup PPO $3,704.00
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $4,409.59
Aetna EBR FI $4,650.11
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4,807.71
Aetna Neighborhood Network $4,810.46
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $4,946.75
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $5,050.98
Cigna New Business ASO $5,050.98
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $5,301.26
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $5,427.43
Aetna Medicare $5,460.30
Aetna of PA Medicare $5,566.32
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $5,566.32
Coventry/First Health Commercial $5,612.20
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $5,724.83
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $5,725.36
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5,725.36
Health Coalition Partners PPO $5,772.55
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $5,831.39
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $6,114.89
Private Health Care Systems PPO $6,413.94
Humana Commercial $6,814.82
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Aldesleukin injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Muncy Muncy $6,538.20 $1,634.55 – $9,807.30
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $8,184.00 $552.16 – $5,831.39
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $8,184.00 $530.72 – $5,831.39
UPMC Somerset Somerset $3,330.60 $1,286.53 – $5,724.83
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $6,538.20 $1,961.46 – $9,807.30
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $8,184.00 $482.33 – $5,725.36
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh not published $1,299.67 – $7,215.69
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $1,312.05 – $6,814.82

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