Mpl gene analysis common variants at UPMC Hamot

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$1,266.00

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.

$2,110.00

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.

$112.22 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,688.00 with InterGroup — 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $112.22 ↓ -91%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $148.57 ↓ -88%
Fidelis Medicare $150.33 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Commercial $150.33 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicare $153.34 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $153.46 ↓ -88%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $154.84 ↓ -88%
Independent Health Commercial $154.84 ↓ -88%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $154.84 ↓ -88%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $157.85 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Medicare $160.85 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $162.34 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $162.36 ↓ -87%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $162.36 ↓ -87%
Cigna Medicare $162.36 ↓ -87%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $316.50 ↓ -75%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $316.83 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $339.09 ↓ -73%
Aetna Commercial $527.50 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $542.53 ↓ -57%
Cigna New Business ASO $633.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $633.00 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $696.30 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $776.48 ↓ -39%
Cigna Commercial $844.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $844.00 ↓ -33%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1,160.50 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,160.50 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $1,371.50 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $1,477.00 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $1,477.00 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,688.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,688.00 ↑ +33%

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Mpl gene analysis common variants at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,170.00 $112.22 – $1,560.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,227.60 $54.24 – $1,841.40
UPMC East Monroeville $1,227.60 $113.28 – $1,636.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,227.60 $136.33 – $162.36
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,227.60 $134.59 – $181.45
UPMC Jameson New Castle $1,227.60 $105.45 – $162.36
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,227.60 $113.28 – $165.36
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $1,227.60 $113.28 – $165.36

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