Pretreatment serum by diff red cell adsorption patient rbc/known phenotype each adsorption ref 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

$139.80

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.

$233.00

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.

$15.30 with UPMC Health Plan vs $198.05 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 Commercial $15.30 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $42.50 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $52.37 ↓ -63%
Aetna EBR ASO $93.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $93.20 ↓ -33%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $128.15 ↓ -8%
Aetna EBR FI $135.14 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $139.80 ↑ +0%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $143.76 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $146.79 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $146.79 ↑ +5%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $148.16 ↑ +6%
InterGroup PPO $151.45 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $163.10 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $163.37 ↑ +17%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $163.37 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $167.26 ↑ +20%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $167.76 ↑ +20%
Aetna Medicare $168.27 ↑ +20%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $171.54 ↑ +23%
Aetna of PA Medicare $171.54 ↑ +23%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $176.42 ↑ +26%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $176.44 ↑ +26%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $176.44 ↑ +26%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $179.71 ↑ +29%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $186.40 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $198.05 ↑ +42%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital —
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —

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Pretreatment serum by diff red cell adsorption patient rbc/known phenotype each adsorption ref at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $126.00 $16.38 – $176.44
UPMC Bedford Everett $141.00 $15.37 – $211.50
UPMC East Monroeville $139.20 $15.16 – $185.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $161.40 $16.38 – $213.04
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $139.80 $15.35 – $176.44
UPMC Jameson New Castle $131.40 $2.64 – $176.44
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $139.20 $16.04 – $179.71
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $139.80 $15.56 – $179.71

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