Electron microscopy diagnostic at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$1,386.00
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.
$2,310.00
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.
$75.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,963.50 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 | $75.90 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $79.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $82.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $102.33 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $107.72 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $117.59 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $119.14 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $335.05 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $381.89 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $470.52 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $706.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $778.82 | ↓ -44% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $778.82 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $797.36 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $802.18 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $817.76 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $817.76 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $841.05 | ↓ -39% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $841.13 | ↓ -39% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $841.13 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $856.70 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $924.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $924.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,339.80 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,386.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,425.27 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,455.30 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,455.30 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,501.50 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,617.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $1,663.20 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,848.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,963.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Electron microscopy diagnostic at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,422.80 | $17.50 – $3,230.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $2,085.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $1,500.25 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,137.60 | $69.00 – $1,516.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,811.40 | $69.00 – $970.76 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $1,248.61 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $774.00 | $20.12 – $841.13 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $1,255.36 |