Intro long gi tube w/mult fluo at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$423.60
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.
$706.00
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.
$144.73 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $529.50 with Humana — 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 | $144.73 | ↓ -66% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $278.02 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $282.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $290.47 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $304.29 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $353.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $353.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $354.36 | ↓ -16% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $388.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $458.90 | ↑ +8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $471.13 | ↑ +11% |
| Humana | Commercial | $529.50 | ↑ +25% |
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Intro long gi tube w/mult fluo at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $900.00 | $146.21 – $1,200.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $423.60 | $96.72 – $600.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $423.60 | $141.20 – $642.84 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $423.60 | $308.49 – $471.13 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $329.40 | $89.84 – $294.78 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $423.60 | $89.84 – $471.13 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $981.00 | $98.82 – $375.56 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $763.20 | $98.82 – $317.82 |