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Ultrasound elastography parenchyma at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$202.20
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.
$337.00
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.
$44.68 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $533.90 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $44.68 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $74.98 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $100.37 | ↓ -50% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $101.38 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $101.38 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $101.38 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $103.41 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $109.48 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $126.08 | ↓ -38% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $132.71 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $134.80 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $145.25 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $150.36 | ↓ -26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $168.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $185.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $190.31 | ↓ -6% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $219.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial | $252.75 | ↑ +25% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $401.58 | ↑ +99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $533.90 | ↑ +164% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |