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Placement nephrostomy catheter (both sides) at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$2,483.40
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.
$4,139.00
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.
$237.66 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,518.15 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 | Commercial | $237.66 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,085.28 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,470.59 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,655.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,655.60 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,771.18 | ↓ -29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $1,811.88 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,953.01 | ↓ -21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,999.49 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,011.60 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,050.66 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $2,050.66 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,109.06 | ↓ -15% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,109.25 | ↓ -15% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,109.25 | ↓ -15% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $2,148.31 | ↓ -13% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,276.45 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,400.62 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,483.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,553.76 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,607.57 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,607.57 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,690.35 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,897.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $2,980.08 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,311.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,518.15 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Placement nephrostomy catheter (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,959.80 | $183.78 – $4,193.05 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,696.20 | $182.30 – $2,544.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,684.00 | $186.88 – $5,219.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $5,191.20 | $197.53 – $6,489.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,164.80 | $190.53 – $3,066.80 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $4,370.40 | $993.28 – $5,827.20 |