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Thyroid Ultrasound at UPMC Northwest
100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440
$315.00
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.
$525.00
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.
$83.98 with UPMC Health Plan vs $446.25 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 | $83.98 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $86.24 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $87.80 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $91.62 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $91.94 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $101.38 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $103.79 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $104.42 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $106.45 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $106.45 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $109.48 | ↓ -65% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $109.49 | ↓ -65% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $109.49 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $111.52 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $113.23 | ↓ -64% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $119.19 | ↓ -62% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $130.12 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $199.86 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $210.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $210.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $248.93 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $304.50 | ↓ -3% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $306.71 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $315.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $323.93 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $330.75 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $330.75 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $341.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $367.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $378.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $420.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $446.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Thyroid Ultrasound at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $880.80 | $83.98 – $1,174.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,002.00 | $83.98 – $1,419.50 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $598.20 | $64.85 – $697.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $394.20 | $66.78 – $558.45 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $572.40 | $50.98 – $763.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $291.00 | $36.58 – $436.50 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $339.60 | $80.17 – $452.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $394.20 | $35.80 – $310.63 |