Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at Uniontown Hospital

500 W Berkeley St, Uniontown, PA · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1871594127

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jul 9, 2026 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

$172.21

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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$344.42

Gross charge

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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.

$17.27 with peak health medicare advantage vs $171.55 with upmc — same scan, same building. Share

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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.

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Payer
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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.

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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
peak health medicare advantage all plans $17.27 ↓ -90%
united mine workers of america medicare advantage united mine workers of america medicare advantage $17.27 ↓ -90%
senior life medicare advantage all plans $18.13 ↓ -89%
amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage all pl $18.13 ↓ -89%
humana medicare advantage all plans $18.13 ↓ -89%
aetna medicare advantage all plans $18.13 ↓ -89%
geisinger pa medicare advantage all plans $18.31 ↓ -89%
pa health & wellness medicare advantage all plan $18.31 ↓ -89%
the health plan wv medicare advantage all plans $18.31 ↓ -89%
wv senior advantage isnp $18.31 ↓ -89%
unitedhealthcare medicare advantage all plans $18.82 ↓ -89%
upmc for life medicare advantage all plans $19.04 ↓ -89%
the health plan wv peia $19.38 ↓ -89%
alliance coal alliance coal $21.59 ↓ -87%
highmark pa chip $23.32 ↓ -86%
coventry health care worker's compensation $27.29 ↓ -84%
blue cross blue shield ppo blue cross blue shield ppo $35.87 ↓ -79%
blue cross blue shield traditional blue cross blue shield traditional $35.87 ↓ -79%
aetna aetna $40.24 ↓ -77%
upmc commercial $171.55 ↓ -0%

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Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $136.80 $7.32 – $182.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $100.20 $6.23 – $150.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $87.60 $9.50 – $124.10
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $87.60 $13.79 – $124.10
UPMC East Monroeville $194.40 $7.39 – $259.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $271.20 $7.32 – $18.65
UPMC Northwest Seneca $67.20 $15.66 – $18.65
UPMC Hanover Hanover $87.60 $13.79 – $73.02

All Pennsylvania hospitals for this procedure →