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Epoetin alfa-epbx 40,000 unit/ml injection solution at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$918.00
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.
$1,530.00
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.
$4.96 with UPMC Health Plan vs $32.30 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $4.96 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $7.12 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $7.85 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $7.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $7.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $7.85 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $8.04 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $8.09 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $8.24 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $8.24 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $8.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $8.48 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $8.48 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $8.63 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $9.66 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $13.72 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $15.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $15.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $19.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $22.04 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison MedPLUS | $22.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $22.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $23.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $23.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $23.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $24.55 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $24.61 | ↓ -97% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $24.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $25.68 | ↓ -97% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $26.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $27.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $30.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Commercial | $32.30 | ↓ -96% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Epoetin alfa-epbx 40,000 unit/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $918.00 | $4.96 – $34.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $229.80 | $5.44 – $32.62 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $918.00 | $4.96 – $28.05 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,222.20 | $4.96 – $28.05 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $264.60 | $7.41 – $16.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $243.00 | $4.96 – $32.30 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $229.80 | $6.48 – $32.40 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $30.75 | $7.59 – $28.05 |