Critical care each additional 30 minutes at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$478.80
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.
$798.00
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.
$81.84 with UPMC Health Plan vs $678.30 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.
Full explanation →
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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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $81.84 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $85.56 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $89.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $110.34 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $116.15 | ↓ -76% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $126.79 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $146.17 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $172.13 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $185.98 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $199.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $229.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $319.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $319.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $399.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $462.84 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $478.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $492.37 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $502.74 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $502.74 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $518.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $558.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $574.56 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $638.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $678.30 | ↑ +42% |
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Critical care each additional 30 minutes at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,228.80 | $71.66 – $1,638.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $319.20 | $78.12 – $478.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,152.00 | $94.49 – $2,050.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $363.60 | $78.12 – $287.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,152.00 | $94.49 – $1,632.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $615.00 | $71.66 – $192.06 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,152.00 | $94.49 – $180.13 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $552.60 | $78.12 – $222.87 |