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Eeg recording awake and asleep 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

$584.40

Cash price

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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.

$974.00

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.

$24.75 with UPMC Health Plan vs $827.90 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.

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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 Managed Medicaid $24.75 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $25.88 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicaid $27.00 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $33.37 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $35.12 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $38.34 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $227.47 ↓ -61%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $233.82 ↓ -60%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $269.24 ↓ -54%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $280.25 ↓ -52%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $296.88 ↓ -49%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $303.95 ↓ -48%
Aetna Medicare $305.79 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $311.72 ↓ -47%
Aetna of PA Medicare $311.72 ↓ -47%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $315.78 ↓ -46%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $320.60 ↓ -45%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $320.63 ↓ -45%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $320.63 ↓ -45%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $326.57 ↓ -44%
Cigna Commercial $389.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $389.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $564.92 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $584.40 ↑ +0%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $600.96 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $613.62 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $613.62 ↑ +5%
InterGroup PPO $633.10 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $681.80 ↑ +17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $701.28 ↑ +20%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $779.20 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $827.90 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Eeg recording awake and asleep at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1,456.80 $24.75 – $2,185.20
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1,189.80 $17.28 – $1,586.40
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,116.00 $24.75 – $1,581.00
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UPMC Somerset Somerset $951.60 $15.53 – $1,189.50
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UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $1,439.20 $17.28 – $1,619.10
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