Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at Uniontown Hospital
500 W Berkeley St, Uniontown, PA · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1871594127
$1,469.00
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.
$2,938.00
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.
$92.76 with aetna better health pa vs $2,048.30 with aetna — 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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| aetna better health pa | chip | $92.76 | ↓ -94% |
| geisinger pennsylvania | mgd medicaid | $101.20 | ↓ -93% |
| highmark health options | chip | $105.00 | ↓ -93% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $105.00 | ↓ -93% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $105.00 | ↓ -93% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $105.00 | ↓ -93% |
| pennsylvania health & wellness | medicaid | $105.41 | ↓ -93% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicaid | amerihealth caritas pa medicaid | $105.41 | ↓ -93% |
| upmc for kids | chip | $105.41 | ↓ -93% |
| upmc for you medicaid | upmc for you medicaid | $105.41 | ↓ -93% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $106.50 | ↓ -93% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $107.00 | ↓ -93% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $107.00 | ↓ -93% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $107.00 | ↓ -93% |
| highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $115.00 | ↓ -92% |
| upmc | commercial | $171.55 | ↓ -88% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $879.10 | ↓ -40% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $879.10 | ↓ -40% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $923.06 | ↓ -37% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $923.06 | ↓ -37% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage | all pl | $923.06 | ↓ -37% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $923.06 | ↓ -37% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $931.85 | ↓ -37% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $931.85 | ↓ -37% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $931.85 | ↓ -37% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $931.85 | ↓ -37% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $958.22 | ↓ -35% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $969.21 | ↓ -34% |
| the health plan wv | peia | $986.35 | ↓ -33% |
| highmark pa | chip | $1,186.96 | ↓ -19% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $1,388.98 | ↓ -5% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $1,538.42 | ↑ +5% |
| blue cross blue shield traditional | blue cross blue shield traditional | $1,825.89 | ↑ +24% |
| blue cross blue shield ppo | blue cross blue shield ppo | $1,825.89 | ↑ +24% |
| aetna | aetna | $2,048.30 | ↑ +39% |
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Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,179.80 | $84.33 – $2,906.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,008.20 | $88.55 – $3,012.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,225.20 | $107.10 – $1,735.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,693.20 | $57.93 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,225.20 | $113.85 – $3,102.01 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,540.40 | $92.76 – $3,387.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,052.60 | $92.76 – $1,300.05 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,898.40 | $92.76 – $938.54 |