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Exc/pilonidal cyst/sinus/simple 11770 at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$480.60
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.
$801.00
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.
$166.62 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,122.17 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 | $166.62 | ↓ -65% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $173.89 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $174.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $188.08 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $194.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $210.53 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $703.63 | ↑ +46% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $793.50 | ↑ +65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $828.50 | ↑ +72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,636.14 | ↑ +449% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $2,701.33 | ↑ +462% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,728.62 | ↑ +468% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,728.62 | ↑ +468% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2,783.19 | ↑ +479% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,406.00 | ↑ +609% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,046.82 | ↑ +742% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $5,122.17 | ↑ +966% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Exc/pilonidal cyst/sinus/simple 11770 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,251.00 | $166.62 – $6,022.25 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $7,126.80 | $166.62 – $9,502.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $5,481.60 | $166.62 – $7,765.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,440.60 | $166.62 – $6,290.85 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,284.00 | $166.62 – $6,069.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $8,618.40 | $166.62 – $9,695.70 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $166.62 – $3,001.48 |