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Mayo carnitine total and free quantitative each specimen plasma at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$276.00
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.
$460.00
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.
$15.30 with UPMC Health Plan vs $204.85 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 Medicare | $15.30 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $16.67 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $16.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $16.87 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $17.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $17.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $17.71 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $17.71 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $18.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18.22 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $18.22 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $18.56 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $37.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $96.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $96.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $116.22 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $132.55 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $139.78 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $143.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $144.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $148.70 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $151.83 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $151.83 | ↓ -45% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $156.65 | ↓ -43% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $168.70 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $173.52 | ↓ -37% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $192.80 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Commercial | $204.85 | ↓ -26% |
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Mayo carnitine total and free quantitative each specimen plasma at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $166.20 | $15.68 – $235.45 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $271.20 | $14.06 – $406.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $205.80 | $12.35 – $291.55 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $85.80 | $11.83 – $107.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $156.00 | $14.57 – $221.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $400.80 | $13.17 – $450.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $331.20 | $13.17 – $441.60 |