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Aldesleukin injection at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$3,330.60
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.
$5,551.00
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.
$1,286.53 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $9,951.53 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $1,286.53 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,576.77 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,639.05 | ↓ -51% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,844.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $1,873.20 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,107.35 | ↓ -37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,341.50 | ↓ -30% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $2,575.65 | ↓ -23% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $3,043.95 | ↓ -9% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,512.25 | ↑ +5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $5,248.25 | ↑ +58% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,301.26 | ↑ +59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $5,301.26 | ↑ +59% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5,301.26 | ↑ +59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $5,407.29 | ↑ +62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,724.83 | ↑ +72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $7,862.30 | ↑ +136% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $9,951.53 | ↑ +199% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Aldesleukin injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $6,538.20 | $1,634.55 – $9,807.30 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $8,184.00 | $552.16 – $5,831.39 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,184.00 | $530.72 – $5,831.39 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $6,538.20 | $1,961.46 – $9,807.30 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $8,184.00 | $482.33 – $5,725.36 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,299.67 – $7,215.69 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $2,895.09 – $6,814.82 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,312.05 – $6,814.82 |