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Carboxyhemoglobin quantitative 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

$72.00

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.

$120.00

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.

$6.16 with UPMC Health Plan vs $102.00 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 Medicaid $6.16 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $6.44 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicaid $6.72 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $8.30 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $8.74 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $9.41 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $9.54 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $11.17 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $12.18 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $12.32 ↓ -83%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $12.32 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $12.61 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare $12.69 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $12.94 ↓ -82%
Aetna of PA Medicare $12.94 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $13.30 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $13.31 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.31 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $13.55 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $24.17 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $29.78 ↓ -59%
Cigna Commercial $48.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $48.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $69.60 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $72.00 ↑ +0%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $74.04 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $75.60 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $75.60 ↑ +5%
InterGroup PPO $78.00 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $84.00 ↑ +17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $86.40 ↑ +20%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $96.00 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $102.00 ↑ +42%

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Carboxyhemoglobin quantitative at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $235.20 $6.16 – $314.50
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $38.40 $6.16 – $57.60
UPMC Muncy Muncy $226.80 $6.16 – $302.40
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $128.40 $5.60 – $181.90
UPMC Somerset Somerset $63.00 $6.16 – $78.75
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $80.40 $6.16 – $113.90
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $274.40 $5.60 – $308.70
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $226.80 $6.16 – $302.40

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