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Rapid Strep Test at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$93.00
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.
$155.00
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.
$6.93 with UPMC Health Plan vs $116.25 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.93 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $7.25 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $8.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $8.76 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $15.75 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $16.34 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $16.36 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $16.53 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $16.53 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $16.53 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $16.86 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $17.85 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $24.52 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $24.61 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $31.03 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $35.67 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $54.09 | ↓ -42% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $61.04 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $62.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $77.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $100.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial | $116.25 | ↑ +25% |
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Rapid Strep Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $34.80 | $6.30 – $46.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $62.40 | $6.93 – $88.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $93.00 | $6.30 – $131.75 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $67.80 | $6.30 – $90.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $41.40 | $5.96 – $62.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $59.40 | $6.62 – $79.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $93.00 | $6.30 – $131.75 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $93.00 | $6.30 – $134.85 |