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MRI upper extremity w/dye at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$3,166.80
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.
$5,278.00
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.
$308.78 with UPMC Health Plan vs $4,486.30 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 | $308.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $340.48 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $348.58 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $350.69 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $357.50 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $357.50 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $367.68 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $367.72 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $374.53 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $525.27 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,109.81 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,400.88 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $1,725.99 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,111.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,111.20 | ↓ -33% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,902.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,061.24 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,166.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,256.53 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,325.14 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,325.14 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,430.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,694.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $3,800.16 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,222.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,486.30 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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MRI upper extremity w/dye at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,621.20 | $316.41 – $6,546.70 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $5,313.60 | $283.82 – $7,970.40 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,051.00 | $393.92 – $4,068.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,004.00 | $367.72 – $11,339.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,713.80 | $353.91 – $3,392.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,742.40 | $293.97 – $6,718.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,689.60 | $393.92 – $4,150.80 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,051.00 | $343.82 – $4,068.00 |