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Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$68.40
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.
$114.00
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.
$6.75 with UPMC Health Plan vs $102.95 with UPMC Work Partners — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6.75 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $29.15 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $30.48 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $31.45 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $31.80 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $33.94 | ↓ -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 | $37.42 | ↓ -45% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $37.42 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $38.31 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $38.54 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $38.75 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $39.29 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $39.29 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $39.30 | ↓ -43% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -41% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $40.41 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $41.16 | ↓ -40% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $41.37 | ↓ -40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $45.16 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $45.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $45.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $66.12 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $68.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $70.34 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $71.82 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $71.82 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $74.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $79.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $82.08 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $91.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $96.90 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $102.95 | ↑ +51% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $297.00 | $6.71 – $445.50 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $232.20 | $8.32 – $309.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $213.60 | $6.74 – $302.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,102.20 | $7.12 – $1,561.45 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $78.60 | $7.47 – $98.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $137.40 | $6.76 – $194.65 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $280.80 | $8.32 – $315.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $232.20 | $8.32 – $309.60 |