2nd order venous cath at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$5,583.60
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.
$9,306.00
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.
$125.95 with UPMC Health Plan vs $6,913.50 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 | $125.95 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $131.45 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $131.68 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $146.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $159.14 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $549.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $1,614.93 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,085.29 | ↓ -45% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,630.05 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $3,687.20 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,972.96 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $4,609.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4,609.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $5,151.05 | ↓ -8% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $5,991.70 | ↑ +7% |
| Humana | Commercial | $6,913.50 | ↑ +24% |
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2nd order venous cath at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $10,650.60 | $114.50 – $14,200.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $5,530.80 | $145.41 – $9,539.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $5,583.60 | $145.41 – $7,835.30 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $8,284.80 | $125.95 – $11,046.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $6,946.20 | $125.95 – $1,631.43 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $9,776.40 | $125.95 – $4,234.19 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $5,530.80 | $145.41 – $582.15 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $5,530.80 | $145.41 – $575.25 |