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Homogenization tissue at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$12.60
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.
$21.00
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.
$5.80 with UPMC Work Partners vs $52.98 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $5.80 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $5.82 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5.88 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $6.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $6.35 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $7.33 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $7.97 | ↓ -37% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $8.27 | ↓ -34% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $8.32 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $8.34 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $8.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $8.72 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $9.30 | ↓ -26% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $10.08 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $10.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $11.04 | ↓ -12% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $13.65 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial | $15.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $15.84 | ↑ +26% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $36.54 | ↑ +190% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $52.98 | ↑ +320% |
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Homogenization tissue at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $68.40 | $5.46 – $96.90 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $75.00 | $4.90 – $112.50 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $96.00 | $5.80 – $128.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $111.60 | $5.33 – $158.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $76.80 | $5.80 – $108.80 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $66.00 | $5.08 – $93.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $116.00 | $5.80 – $130.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $96.00 | $5.80 – $128.00 |