X-ray exam of middle ear at Uniontown Hospital
500 W Berkeley St, Uniontown, PA · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1871594127
$295.00
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.
$590.00
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.
$12.61 with highmark health options vs $1,233.99 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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| highmark health options | chip | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $12.79 | ↓ -96% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $12.85 | ↓ -96% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $12.85 | ↓ -96% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $12.85 | ↓ -96% |
| highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $13.81 | ↓ -95% |
| aetna better health pa | chip | $24.75 | ↓ -92% |
| geisinger pennsylvania | mgd medicaid | $27.00 | ↓ -91% |
| pennsylvania health & wellness | medicaid | $28.13 | ↓ -90% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicaid | amerihealth caritas pa medicaid | $28.13 | ↓ -90% |
| upmc for kids | chip | $28.13 | ↓ -90% |
| upmc for you medicaid | upmc for you medicaid | $28.13 | ↓ -90% |
| upmc | commercial | $171.55 | ↓ -42% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $529.61 | ↑ +80% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $529.61 | ↑ +80% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $556.09 | ↑ +89% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $556.09 | ↑ +89% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage | all pl | $556.09 | ↑ +89% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $556.09 | ↑ +89% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $561.39 | ↑ +90% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $561.39 | ↑ +90% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $561.39 | ↑ +90% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $561.39 | ↑ +90% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $577.27 | ↑ +96% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $583.90 | ↑ +98% |
| the health plan wv | peia | $594.22 | ↑ +101% |
| highmark pa | chip | $715.08 | ↑ +142% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $836.78 | ↑ +184% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $926.82 | ↑ +214% |
| blue cross blue shield traditional | blue cross blue shield traditional | $1,100.00 | ↑ +273% |
| blue cross blue shield ppo | blue cross blue shield ppo | $1,100.00 | ↑ +273% |
| aetna | aetna | $1,233.99 | ↑ +318% |
Visitor-reported prices
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X-ray exam of middle ear at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $475.20 | $28.80 – $123.61 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $574.40 | $28.80 – $106.83 |