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Culture screening strep group a at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$60.60
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.
$101.00
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.
$5.72 with UPMC Health Plan vs $60.35 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 | $5.72 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $5.98 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $6.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $6.24 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $6.55 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $6.63 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.63 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $6.79 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $6.83 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $6.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $6.96 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $7.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $7.16 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $7.16 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $7.29 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $7.71 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $8.12 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $8.86 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $28.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $28.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $29.77 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $36.67 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $41.18 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $42.60 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $43.81 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $44.73 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $44.73 | ↓ -26% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $46.15 | ↓ -24% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $49.70 | ↓ -18% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $51.12 | ↓ -16% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $56.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Commercial | $60.35 | ↓ -0% |
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Culture screening strep group a at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $126.60 | $5.72 – $126.65 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $5.53 – $125.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $279.00 | $5.72 – $372.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $85.80 | $5.20 – $51.85 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $37.80 | $5.20 – $47.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $117.00 | $5.72 – $74.80 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $337.60 | $5.20 – $101.70 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $75.00 | $5.72 – $86.40 |