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Cath left heart/lv gram at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$5,695.80
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.
$9,493.00
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.
$1,257.63 with UPMC Work Partners vs $8,069.05 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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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 | $1,257.63 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,715.69 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,780.97 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $3,066.46 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,139.44 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,158.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,219.78 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $3,219.78 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,311.47 | ↓ -42% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -42% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,311.78 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $3,345.94 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $3,373.11 | ↓ -41% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,704.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,797.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,797.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,144.30 | ↓ -27% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $5,221.15 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $5,505.94 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $5,695.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5,857.18 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,980.59 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $5,980.59 | ↑ +5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6,645.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $6,834.96 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,594.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $8,069.05 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath left heart/lv gram at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $7,483.80 | $1,046.36 – $11,225.70 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $13,842.00 | $1,056.32 – $19,609.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $11,458.20 | $931.20 – $16,232.45 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $5,240.40 | $892.40 – $6,550.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,955.80 | $993.28 – $5,274.40 |