Measurement post void urine by ultrasound at UPMC Cole

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$60.00

Cash price

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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.

$100.00

Gross charge

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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.

$14.77 with Aetna vs $419.78 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.

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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
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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
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $14.77 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $15.25 ↓ -75%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $15.40 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $15.40 ↓ -74%
Humana Medicare $15.55 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicaid $15.79 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC) $15.79 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $15.95 ↓ -73%
Cigna Medicare $16.17 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP $16.63 ↓ -72%
PA Health & Wellness Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $16.63 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare $16.77 ↓ -72%
Geisinger Medicaid $19.56 ↓ -67%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $21.22 ↓ -65%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $22.00 ↓ -63%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $23.98 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Medicare $28.00 ↓ -53%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $35.70 ↓ -41%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $38.50 ↓ -36%
Geisinger Commercial $41.25 ↓ -31%
InterGroup PPO $44.00 ↓ -27%
Humana Commercial $44.00 ↓ -27%
Galaxy Health Plan Commercial $44.00 ↓ -27%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $44.00 ↓ -27%
Multiplan PPO/Auto $44.00 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $44.54 ↓ -26%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $44.54 ↓ -26%
Aetna Commercial $45.10 ↓ -25%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $54.24 ↓ -10%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $54.24 ↓ -10%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $88.25 ↑ +47%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $419.78 ↑ +600%
United Healthcare Commercial not published by hospital

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Measurement post void urine by ultrasound at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $139.20 $11.60 – $185.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $254.40 $14.77 – $381.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $151.80 $17.60 – $419.78
UPMC East Monroeville $56.40 $11.71 – $71.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $566.40 $11.60 – $82.37
UPMC Northwest Seneca $256.80 $15.48 – $59.46
UPMC Hanover Hanover $125.40 $17.87 – $90.78
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $173.40 $15.48 – $61.16

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