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Chloroprocaine hcl 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

$1.20

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.

$47.57

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.

$0.03 with UPMC Health Plan vs $0.85 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 $0.03 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.04 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.04 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $0.04 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $0.05 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.05 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $0.06 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare $0.25 ↓ -79%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.36 ↓ -70%
Aetna EBR ASO $0.40 ↓ -67%
Cigna Commercial $0.40 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $0.50 ↓ -58%
Aetna EBR FI $0.58 ↓ -52%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $0.60 ↓ -50%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $0.62 ↓ -48%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $0.63 ↓ -48%
Cigna New Business ASO $0.63 ↓ -48%
InterGroup PPO $0.65 ↓ -46%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $0.70 ↓ -42%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $0.72 ↓ -40%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $0.80 ↓ -33%
Humana Commercial $0.85 ↓ -29%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Chloroprocaine hcl injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1.20 $0.02 – $0.90
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1.20 $0.04 – $1.35
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1.80 $0.02 – $0.85
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $1.80 $0.02 – $2.55
UPMC Somerset Somerset $0.60 $0.02 – $0.75
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $1.20 $0.02 – $0.85
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $1.20 $0.04 – $0.90
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $1.80 $0.02 – $2.55

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