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Oral aprepitant 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

$260.40

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.

$434.00

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.

$1.72 with UPMC Health Plan vs $55.73 with Aetna — 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 Medicaid $1.72 ↓ -99%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.73 ↓ -99%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $2.73 ↓ -99%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $2.73 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $3.35 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicare $13.50 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $16.26 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $19.50 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $20.03 ↓ -92%
Aetna EBR ASO $21.60 ↓ -92%
Cigna Commercial $21.60 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $27.00 ↓ -90%
Aetna EBR FI $31.32 ↓ -88%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $32.40 ↓ -88%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $33.32 ↓ -87%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $34.02 ↓ -87%
Cigna New Business ASO $34.02 ↓ -87%
InterGroup PPO $35.10 ↓ -87%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $37.80 ↓ -85%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $38.88 ↓ -85%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $43.20 ↓ -83%
Humana Commercial $45.90 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $48.77 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $53.41 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicaid $55.73 ↓ -79%

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Oral aprepitant at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $187.20 $1.72 – $53.41
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1,583.40 $2.73 – $95.40
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $738.00 $1.72 – $48.77
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $1,821.60 $1.72 – $102.85
UPMC Somerset Somerset $52.20 $2.73 – $65.25
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $181.80 $1.72 – $51.09
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $1,583.40 $2.73 – $95.40
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $73.80 $2.73 – $102.85

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