Guide wire threaded 1.4x150mm at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$2,001.60
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.
$3,336.00
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.
$11.75 with Aetna vs $1,334.40 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $11.75 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $18.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $18.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $23.50 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $25.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $27.26 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $28.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $29.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $29.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $29.61 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $30.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $32.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $33.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $37.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial | $39.95 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $158.67 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $195.49 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $573.29 | ↓ -71% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1,128.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1,334.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Guide wire threaded 1.4x150mm at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,506.20 | $10.83 – $473.76 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $677.40 | $14.25 – $473.76 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,575.00 | $24.89 – $104.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,162.40 | $11.80 – $473.76 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,622.00 | $8.00 – $473.76 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $6,678.00 | $61.14 – $61.14 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,035.60 | $155.81 – $473.76 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,213.40 | $55.13 – $473.76 |