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Tc-99m sulfur colloid at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$186.00
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.
$310.00
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.
$77.50 with Aetna vs $507.70 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $77.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $124.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $124.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $155.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $170.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $179.80 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $186.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $191.27 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $195.30 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $195.30 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $201.50 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $217.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $223.20 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $248.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $263.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $310.11 | ↑ +67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $382.07 | ↑ +105% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $507.70 | ↑ +173% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Tc-99m sulfur colloid at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $286.80 | $119.48 – $430.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $158.40 | $39.60 – $237.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $268.80 | $112.00 – $608.82 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,296.60 | $120.62 – $1,836.85 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $469.20 | $118.28 – $586.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $542.40 | $120.62 – $768.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $191.20 | $43.02 – $215.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $158.40 | $71.28 – $237.60 |