Warde hemoglobin fractionation/quantitation electrophoresis at UPMC Hamot

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

$126.00

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.

$210.00

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.

$11.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $168.00 with Multiplan — 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $11.00 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $12.10 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $12.65 ↓ -90%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $12.72 ↓ -90%
Fidelis Medicare $12.87 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicare $13.13 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $13.14 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicaid $13.20 ↓ -90%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $13.26 ↓ -89%
Independent Health Commercial $13.26 ↓ -89%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $13.26 ↓ -89%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $13.51 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare $13.77 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.90 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $13.90 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $13.90 ↓ -89%
Cigna Medicare $13.90 ↓ -89%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $15.29 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $16.31 ↓ -87%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $17.17 ↓ -86%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $17.65 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Commercial $17.69 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $18.75 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $22.79 ↓ -82%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $31.50 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $37.22 ↓ -70%
Aetna Commercial $52.50 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $63.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $63.00 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $68.86 ↓ -45%
Univera Commercial $69.30 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $84.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $84.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $110.18 ↓ -13%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $136.50 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $147.00 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $147.00 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $168.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $168.00 ↑ +33%

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Warde hemoglobin fractionation/quantitation electrophoresis at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $112.80 $11.00 – $150.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $91.80 $11.00 – $130.05
UPMC Cole Coudersport $82.20 $8.37 – $109.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $91.80 $11.00 – $130.05
UPMC East Monroeville $98.40 $11.00 – $131.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $133.80 $11.67 – $13.90
UPMC Hanover Hanover $91.80 $11.00 – $20.59
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $87.60 $11.00 – $24.15

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