Assay of urine sulfate at Uniontown Hospital
500 W Berkeley St, Uniontown, PA · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1871594127
$24.50
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.
$49.00
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.
$5.19 with wellpoint west virginia vs $171.55 with upmc — 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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| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $5.19 | ↓ -79% |
| highmark health options | chip | $5.19 | ↓ -79% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $5.19 | ↓ -79% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $5.19 | ↓ -79% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $5.26 | ↓ -79% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $5.29 | ↓ -78% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $5.29 | ↓ -78% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $5.29 | ↓ -78% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $5.49 | ↓ -78% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $5.49 | ↓ -78% |
| highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $5.68 | ↓ -77% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $5.76 | ↓ -76% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $5.76 | ↓ -76% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage | all pl | $5.76 | ↓ -76% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $5.76 | ↓ -76% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $5.82 | ↓ -76% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $5.82 | ↓ -76% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $5.82 | ↓ -76% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $5.82 | ↓ -76% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $5.98 | ↓ -76% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $6.05 | ↓ -75% |
| the health plan wv | peia | $6.16 | ↓ -75% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $6.86 | ↓ -72% |
| highmark pa | chip | $7.41 | ↓ -70% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $8.67 | ↓ -65% |
| blue cross blue shield ppo | blue cross blue shield ppo | $11.40 | ↓ -53% |
| blue cross blue shield traditional | blue cross blue shield traditional | $11.40 | ↓ -53% |
| aetna | aetna | $12.79 | ↓ -48% |
| upmc | commercial | $171.55 | ↑ +600% |
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Assay of urine sulfate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $35.40 | $5.43 – $47.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $80.40 | $1.98 – $120.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $27.60 | $3.02 – $39.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $27.60 | $4.39 – $28.05 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $99.60 | $5.43 – $132.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $72.60 | $5.43 – $12.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $43.80 | $4.98 – $5.93 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $27.60 | $4.39 – $27.50 |