Cystine urine quantitative at UPMC Community Osteopathic

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

$116.40

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.

$194.00

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.

$22.75 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $129.59 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $22.75 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $23.09 ↓ -80%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $23.19 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $23.67 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $23.77 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $23.97 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $24.13 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $24.59 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $24.82 ↓ -79%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $25.00 ↓ -79%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $25.00 ↓ -79%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $30.25 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $30.38 ↓ -74%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $31.58 ↓ -73%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $33.78 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $39.52 ↓ -66%
Aetna ACO $73.62 ↓ -37%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $78.12 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $81.25 ↓ -30%
Aetna Commercial $92.00 ↓ -21%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $94.00 ↓ -19%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $98.61 ↓ -15%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $98.61 ↓ -15%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $98.61 ↓ -15%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $102.82 ↓ -12%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $106.25 ↓ -9%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $129.59 ↑ +11%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $129.59 ↑ +11%

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Cystine urine quantitative at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $116.40 $22.71 – $155.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $213.00 $8.29 – $319.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $116.40 $20.56 – $164.90
UPMC East Monroeville $250.20 $22.71 – $333.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $94.20 $22.71 – $32.42
UPMC Northwest Seneca $125.40 $20.84 – $26.67
UPMC Hanover Hanover $116.40 $20.56 – $36.77
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $108.60 $20.57 – $43.12

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