Antibody screen rbc at UPMC Somerset

225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$70.20

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.

$117.00

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.

$8.92 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $73.50 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.

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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 Medicare Advantage $8.92 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $9.29 ↓ -87%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $9.66 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $9.67 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $9.70 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $9.72 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $9.77 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $9.77 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.77 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $9.97 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.55 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.84 ↓ -85%
Geisinger Medicaid $11.74 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $14.49 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $18.34 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $29.86 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Commercial $34.20 ↓ -51%
Geisinger Commercial $38.59 ↓ -45%
Aetna of PA TPA/Carrier $39.20 ↓ -44%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $43.29 ↓ -38%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $49.00 ↓ -30%
Galaxy Health Plan Commercial $63.70 ↓ -9%
Humana Commercial $73.50 ↑ +5%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Antibody screen rbc at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $70.80 $8.45 – $94.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $55.20 $3.53 – $82.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $70.20 $8.45 – $99.45
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $70.20 $8.45 – $83.30
UPMC East Monroeville $70.20 $8.45 – $93.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $104.40 $8.45 – $73.45
UPMC Northwest Seneca $54.00 $8.86 – $10.55
UPMC Hanover Hanover $70.20 $8.45 – $15.63

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