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Blood Culture Test at UPMC Horizon-Greenville

110 N Main St, Greenville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225048838

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

$112.80

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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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$188.00

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.

$9.24 with UPMC Health Plan vs $159.80 with Humana — 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $9.24 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $10.20 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $10.63 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $10.63 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $10.84 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $10.84 ↓ -90%
Aetna of PA Medicare $10.84 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare $11.04 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $11.14 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $11.15 ↓ -90%
Cigna Medicare $11.15 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $11.15 ↓ -90%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $14.00 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $15.40 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicaid $15.40 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $17.89 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $19.37 ↓ -83%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $19.46 ↓ -83%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $20.76 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $21.86 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $23.86 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $32.28 ↓ -71%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $39.77 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $62.04 ↓ -45%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Traditional $64.11 ↓ -43%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $64.23 ↓ -43%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $69.56 ↓ -38%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $71.82 ↓ -36%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Access PPO/Blue Preferred HMO/HIC $73.13 ↓ -35%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $73.32 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $73.32 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $73.32 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $73.32 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $75.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $75.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $75.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $112.80 ↑ +0%
InterGroup PPO $122.20 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $124.08 ↑ +10%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $131.60 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $150.40 ↑ +33%
Prime Net Commercial $154.16 ↑ +37%
Humana Commercial $159.80 ↑ +42%

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Blood Culture Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $155.40 $10.20 – $207.20
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $322.20 $9.59 – $456.45
UPMC Hamot Erie $240.00 $10.20 – $280.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $57.00 $9.89 – $80.75
UPMC Altoona Altoona $115.80 $10.20 – $154.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $75.00 $3.72 – $112.50
UPMC Cole Coudersport $73.80 $6.71 – $98.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $57.00 $10.22 – $80.75

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