Thiotepa 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.

$1,965.80

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.

$491.45 with Aetna vs $1,670.93 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
Aetna Medicare $491.45
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $681.63
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $709.85
Cigna Commercial $786.32
Aetna EBR ASO $786.32
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $839.81
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $982.90
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $1,081.19
Aetna EBR FI $1,140.16
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1,179.48
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1,212.90
Cigna New Business ASO $1,238.45
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1,238.45
InterGroup PPO $1,277.77
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,376.06
Health Coalition Partners PPO $1,415.38
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,499.32
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,572.64
Humana Commercial $1,670.93
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Thiotepa injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $2,195.40 $208.54 – $2,927.20
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,062.60 $208.54 – $291.49
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,928.60 $208.54 – $208.54
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $2,755.20 not published
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh not published $206.57 – $291.49
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $208.54 – $208.54

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