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Bundled special stain group 2 at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$78.60
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.
$131.00
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.
$6.18 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $230.69 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 | $6.18 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $16.19 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $23.46 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $23.73 | ↓ -70% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $26.78 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $27.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $34.00 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $41.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $44.20 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $47.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Commercial | $51.00 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $56.11 | ↓ -29% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $58.56 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $65.45 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $70.90 | ↓ -10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $121.66 | ↑ +55% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $122.89 | ↑ +56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $122.89 | ↑ +56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $122.89 | ↑ +56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $125.35 | ↑ +59% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $132.71 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $182.26 | ↑ +132% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $230.69 | ↑ +193% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Bundled special stain group 2 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $56.40 | $6.25 – $129.03 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $237.60 | $41.44 – $316.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $67.20 | $6.51 – $129.03 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $229.80 | $6.31 – $135.18 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $557.40 | $6.31 – $135.18 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $114.60 | $6.31 – $162.35 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $287.20 | $35.64 – $178.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $237.60 | $41.44 – $316.80 |