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Pralatrexate injection 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

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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.

$11,697.50

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.

$247.91 with UPMC Health Plan vs $9,942.88 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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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 $247.91
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $356.08
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $392.63
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $392.63
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $392.63
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $392.63
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $401.97
Aetna Medicare $404.41
Aetna of PA Medicare $412.26
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $412.26
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $424.00
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $424.04
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $424.04
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $431.89
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $482.93
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $554.07
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $682.66
InterGroup PPO $3,704.00
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4,223.97
Aetna EBR ASO $4,679.00
Cigna Commercial $4,679.00
Aetna EBR FI $6,784.55
Aetna Neighborhood Network $7,018.50
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $7,217.36
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $7,369.43
Cigna New Business ASO $7,369.43
Coventry/First Health Commercial $8,188.25
Health Coalition Partners PPO $8,422.20
Private Health Care Systems PPO $9,358.00
Humana Commercial $9,942.88
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Pralatrexate injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $723.60 $247.91 – $1,025.10
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $33,372.00 $247.91 – $1,025.10
UPMC Somerset Somerset $4,072.20 $327.76 – $3,735.75
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $788.00 $247.91 – $837.25
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $723.60 $327.55 – $1,025.10
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh not published $247.91 – $10,527.75

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