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Fetal non stress test 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

$266.40

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.

$444.00

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.

$19.25 with UPMC Health Plan vs $416.07 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 $19.25 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $20.12 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicaid $21.00 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $25.95 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $27.32 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $29.82 ↓ -89%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $99.87 ↓ -63%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $173.93 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $177.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $177.60 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $191.79 ↓ -28%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $196.35 ↓ -26%
Aetna Medicare $197.54 ↓ -26%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $198.51 ↓ -25%
Aetna of PA Medicare $201.38 ↓ -24%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $201.38 ↓ -24%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $207.11 ↓ -22%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $207.13 ↓ -22%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $207.13 ↓ -22%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $210.97 ↓ -21%
Aetna EBR FI $257.52 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $266.40 ↑ +0%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $273.95 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $279.72 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $279.72 ↑ +5%
InterGroup PPO $288.60 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $310.80 ↑ +17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $319.68 ↑ +20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $337.70 ↑ +27%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $355.20 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $377.40 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $416.07 ↑ +56%

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Fetal non stress test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $366.60 $19.25 – $549.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $897.00 $5.66 – $1,270.75
UPMC Somerset Somerset $752.40 $5.43 – $940.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $451.20 $6.04 – $507.60
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $373.20 $6.04 – $497.60

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