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Dextrose 5 % and lactated ringers intravenous solution at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$78.40
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.
$98.00
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.
$4.34 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $83.30 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $4.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $5.35 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $24.50 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $35.39 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $39.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $39.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $49.00 | ↓ -38% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $53.90 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $56.84 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $58.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $60.47 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $61.74 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $61.74 | ↓ -21% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $63.70 | ↓ -19% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $68.60 | ↓ -13% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $70.56 | ↓ -10% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $74.74 | ↓ -5% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $78.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Humana | Commercial | $83.30 | ↑ +6% |
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Dextrose 5 % and lactated ringers intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $71.00 | $1.67 – $79.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $29.00 | $5.40 – $32.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $1.69 – $124.95 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $1.69 – $167.45 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $140.00 | $1.69 – $148.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $29.00 | $6.48 – $32.40 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $1.65 – $167.45 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $29.00 | $9.72 – $32.40 |