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Scan duplex lower extremity arteries complete bilateral at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$539.40
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.
$899.00
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.
$161.49 with UPMC Health Plan vs $764.15 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 | Managed Medicaid | $161.49 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $168.83 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $176.17 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $209.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $217.72 | ↓ -60% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $229.19 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $230.45 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $235.93 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $237.36 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $241.97 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $241.97 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $248.86 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $248.89 | ↓ -54% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $248.89 | ↓ -54% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $250.19 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $253.50 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $359.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $359.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $369.40 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $405.54 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $455.12 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $521.42 | ↓ -3% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $523.55 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $539.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $554.68 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $566.37 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $566.37 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $584.35 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $629.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $647.28 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $719.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $764.15 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Scan duplex lower extremity arteries complete bilateral at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $985.80 | $142.33 – $1,478.70 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,678.20 | $152.76 – $2,237.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,940.40 | $143.68 – $2,748.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,404.00 | $143.21 – $1,989.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $819.60 | $55.92 – $399.68 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,340.40 | $143.68 – $1,898.90 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,029.60 | $152.76 – $2,283.30 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,678.20 | $152.76 – $2,237.60 |