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Hla typing a b or c 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

$669.60

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.

$1,116.00

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.

$52.60 with UPMC Health Plan vs $948.60 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 Medicare $52.60 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $57.32 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $58.00 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $58.00 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $59.38 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $59.74 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $60.90 ↓ -91%
Aetna of PA Medicare $60.90 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $62.63 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $62.64 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $62.64 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $63.80 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $86.35 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $90.28 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $92.79 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicaid $94.20 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $116.42 ↓ -83%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $122.55 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $133.78 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $290.86 ↓ -57%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $358.36 ↓ -46%
Cigna Commercial $446.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $446.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $647.28 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $669.60 ↑ +0%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $688.57 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $703.08 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $703.08 ↑ +5%
InterGroup PPO $725.40 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $781.20 ↑ +17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $803.52 ↑ +20%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $892.80 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $948.60 ↑ +42%

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Hla typing a b or c at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $874.80 $53.90 – $752.25
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $424.20 $48.35 – $636.30
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $1,663.20 $57.32 – $2,356.20
UPMC Somerset Somerset $322.80 $57.32 – $403.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $562.20 $50.08 – $796.45
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $967.20 $57.32 – $1,088.10
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $799.20 $57.32 – $1,065.60

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