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Insert cath pleura with image at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$2,320.80
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.
$3,868.00
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.
$1,283.30 with UPMC Work Partners vs $3,287.80 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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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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,283.30 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,343.14 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,481.02 | ↓ -36% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,516.27 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,525.45 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,547.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,547.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,555.07 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,555.07 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,599.35 | ↓ -31% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,599.50 | ↓ -31% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,599.50 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $1,629.12 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,989.78 | ↓ -14% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,127.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,243.44 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,320.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,386.56 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,436.84 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,436.84 | ↑ +5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $2,451.56 | ↑ +6% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,514.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,707.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $2,784.96 | ↑ +20% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,807.57 | ↑ +21% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,094.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,287.80 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Insert cath pleura with image at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,552.20 | $773.96 – $6,448.95 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,703.60 | $766.66 – $4,055.40 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,040.00 | $510.00 – $2,720.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,692.00 | $773.96 – $6,647.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $10,384.20 | $758.91 – $12,980.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,012.80 | $773.96 – $5,684.80 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,467.20 | $555.12 – $2,775.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,040.00 | $993.28 – $2,720.00 |