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Chest X-ray at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$188.40
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.
$314.00
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.
$11.67 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $157.59 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 | $11.67 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $15.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $15.60 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $16.81 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $17.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $19.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $25.35 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $26.00 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $27.14 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Commercial | $29.25 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $30.33 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $32.86 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $37.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $83.11 | ↓ -56% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $83.95 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $83.95 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $83.95 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $85.63 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $90.66 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $101.55 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $124.51 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $135.02 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $157.59 | ↓ -16% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Chest X-ray at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $419.40 | $11.90 – $594.15 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $172.80 | $11.78 – $230.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $115.80 | $24.82 – $173.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $150.60 | $24.82 – $200.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $436.20 | $11.90 – $581.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $532.80 | $11.78 – $621.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $188.40 | $7.41 – $134.58 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $426.00 | $22.93 – $603.50 |