Fibrinogen activity at UPMC Community Osteopathic

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

$49.20

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.

$82.00

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.

$9.62 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $69.70 with Wellspan Population Health — 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 $9.62 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $9.77 ↓ -80%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $9.91 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $10.01 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $10.05 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $10.14 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $10.21 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $10.40 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $10.50 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $12.98 ↓ -74%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $13.50 ↓ -73%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $14.43 ↓ -71%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $16.40 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $16.40 ↓ -67%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $16.89 ↓ -66%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $19.84 ↓ -60%
Aetna ACO $48.30 ↓ -2%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $49.64 ↑ +1%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $49.64 ↑ +1%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $49.64 ↑ +1%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $51.25 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $53.30 ↑ +8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $55.83 ↑ +13%
Aetna Commercial $60.35 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $61.66 ↑ +25%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $65.24 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $65.24 ↑ +33%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $69.70 ↑ +42%

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Fibrinogen activity at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $124.80 $9.61 – $166.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $49.80 $3.51 – $74.70
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $49.20 $9.62 – $69.70
UPMC Cole Coudersport $61.80 $6.32 – $82.40
UPMC East Monroeville $125.40 $9.61 – $167.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $141.60 $9.61 – $16.32
UPMC Northwest Seneca $105.00 $8.82 – $11.40
UPMC Hanover Hanover $49.20 $9.62 – $15.55

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