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Cytopathology fna adequacy evaluation first episode each site 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

$51.00

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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.

$85.00

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.

$13.62 with UPMC Health Plan vs $179.71 with United Healthcare — 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 Commercial $13.62 ↓ -73%
Aetna EBR ASO $34.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $34.00 ↓ -33%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $46.75 ↓ -8%
Aetna EBR FI $49.30 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $51.00 ↑ +0%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $52.39 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $52.45 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $53.55 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $53.55 ↑ +5%
InterGroup PPO $55.25 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $59.50 ↑ +17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $61.20 ↑ +20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $64.55 ↑ +27%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $68.00 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $72.25 ↑ +42%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $80.70 ↑ +58%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $148.16 ↑ +191%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $163.37 ↑ +220%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $163.37 ↑ +220%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $167.26 ↑ +228%
Aetna Medicare $168.27 ↑ +230%
Aetna of PA Medicare $171.54 ↑ +236%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $171.54 ↑ +236%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $176.42 ↑ +246%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $176.44 ↑ +246%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $176.44 ↑ +246%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $179.71 ↑ +252%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Cytopathology fna adequacy evaluation first episode each site at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $213.00 $13.53 – $319.50
UPMC Muncy Muncy $70.80 $17.70 – $122.78
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $68.40 $13.61 – $179.71
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $75.00 $14.36 – $179.71
UPMC Somerset Somerset $337.20 $19.98 – $421.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $76.80 $13.65 – $176.42
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $85.60 $19.26 – $122.78
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $70.80 $44.60 – $176.42

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