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Covid-19 administration immunization im inj 1st/only component 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

$24.00

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.

$40.00

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.

$16.00 with Aetna vs $269.14 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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
Aetna EBR ASO $16.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $16.00 ↓ -33%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $22.00 ↓ -8%
Aetna EBR FI $23.20 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $24.00 ↑ +0%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $24.68 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $25.20 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $25.20 ↑ +5%
InterGroup PPO $26.00 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $28.00 ↑ +17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $28.80 ↑ +20%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $30.51 ↑ +27%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $32.00 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $34.00 ↑ +42%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $35.90 ↑ +50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $39.58 ↑ +65%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $40.52 ↑ +69%
Aetna Medicare $40.77 ↑ +70%
Aetna of PA Medicare $41.56 ↑ +73%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $41.56 ↑ +73%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $42.74 ↑ +78%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $42.75 ↑ +78%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $42.75 ↑ +78%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $43.54 ↑ +81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $218.44 ↑ +810%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $269.14 ↑ +1021%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Covid-19 administration immunization im inj 1st/only component at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $24.00 $11.16 – $84.17
UPMC Muncy Muncy $25.20 $6.30 – $37.80
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $24.00 $13.60 – $84.97
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $24.00 $7.20 – $84.97
UPMC Somerset Somerset $24.00 $14.00 – $42.74
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $24.00 $10.08 – $84.97
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $25.20 $7.56 – $37.80
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $24.00 $15.92 – $42.74

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