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Calcium 24 hour urine 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

$43.80

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.

$73.00

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.

$5.47 with UPMC Health Plan vs $62.05 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 Health Plan Managed Medicare $5.47 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.96 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $6.03 ↓ -86%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.03 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $6.17 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $6.21 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $6.33 ↓ -86%
Aetna of PA Medicare $6.33 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $6.51 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $6.51 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6.51 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $6.63 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $6.73 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $8.80 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $9.20 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicaid $9.60 ↓ -78%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $11.86 ↓ -73%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $12.49 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $13.63 ↓ -69%
Cigna Commercial $29.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $29.20 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $30.25 ↓ -31%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $37.27 ↓ -15%
Aetna EBR FI $42.34 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $43.80 ↑ +0%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $45.04 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $45.99 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $45.99 ↑ +5%
InterGroup PPO $47.45 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $51.10 ↑ +17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $52.56 ↑ +20%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $58.40 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $62.05 ↑ +42%

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Calcium 24 hour urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $131.40 $5.60 – $186.15
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $63.60 $5.03 – $95.40
UPMC Muncy Muncy $82.80 $5.96 – $110.40
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $287.40 $5.96 – $407.15
UPMC Somerset Somerset $30.60 $5.96 – $30.75
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $80.40 $5.21 – $113.90
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $95.20 $5.96 – $71.10
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $78.60 $5.96 – $104.80

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