Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution 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.

$4,581.80

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.

$1,178.91 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,894.53 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,178.91 —
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1,336.25 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $1,452.51 —
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,654.49 —
Cigna Commercial $1,832.72 —
Aetna EBR ASO $1,832.72 —
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $1,919.29 —
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $2,116.32 —
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2,116.32 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $2,116.32 —
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $2,116.32 —
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $2,166.69 —
Aetna Medicare $2,179.81 —
Aetna of PA Medicare $2,222.14 —
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $2,222.14 —
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $2,285.41 —
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $2,285.63 —
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $2,285.63 —
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $2,327.95 —
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,603.08 —
Aetna EBR FI $2,657.44 —
Aetna Neighborhood Network $2,749.08 —
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $2,826.97 —
Cigna New Business ASO $2,886.53 —
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $2,886.53 —
InterGroup PPO $2,978.17 —
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,207.26 —
Health Coalition Partners PPO $3,298.90 —
Private Health Care Systems PPO $3,665.44 —
Humana Commercial $3,894.53 —
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $6,097.60 $294.40 – $6,097.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $6,332.80 $763.57 – $7,124.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,186.20 $270.85 – $3,386.11
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,864.20 $500.35 – $2,116.32
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,186.20 $395.40 – $2,603.08
UPMC East Monroeville $19,696.80 $297.20 – $26,262.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $4,949.60 $294.40 – $2,285.63
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,186.20 $2,095.16 – $3,386.11

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