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Bx thyroid/percutan core needle 60100 at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$924.60
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.
$1,541.00
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.
$72.05 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,259.21 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $72.05 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $75.19 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $84.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $91.04 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $170.12 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $172.80 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $202.40 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $203.91 | ↓ -78% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $216.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $280.80 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $320.23 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Commercial | $324.00 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $381.94 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $637.67 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $664.08 | ↓ -28% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $670.79 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $670.79 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $670.79 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $684.21 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $724.39 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $841.80 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $994.85 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $1,259.21 | ↑ +36% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Bx thyroid/percutan core needle 60100 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $483.00 | $72.05 – $737.87 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $576.00 | $72.05 – $864.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,119.00 | $72.05 – $1,492.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,240.20 | $72.05 – $1,756.95 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,305.00 | $72.05 – $1,848.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $745.80 | $72.05 – $1,056.55 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,352.80 | $42.30 – $936.96 |