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Tc-99m exametazime diag at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$1,750.20
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.
$2,917.00
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.
$727.64 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,293.82 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 Medicare | $727.64 | ↓ -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 | $802.34 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $821.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $826.41 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $842.46 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $842.46 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $866.45 | ↓ -50% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $866.53 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $866.53 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $882.57 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,166.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,166.80 | ↓ -33% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,604.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,691.86 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,750.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,799.79 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,837.71 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,837.71 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,896.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,041.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $2,100.24 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,333.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,479.45 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,957.75 | ↑ +126% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,296.67 | ↑ +145% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $5,293.82 | ↑ +202% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Tc-99m exametazime diag at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,733.20 | $745.61 – $5,288.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,173.20 | $866.53 – $11,578.70 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,461.00 | $613.62 – $2,069.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $867.20 | $195.12 – $975.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $717.00 | $475.49 – $1,075.50 |