Protein c activity at UPMC Community Osteopathic

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

$70.20

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.

$117.00

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.

$13.70 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $150.40 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 $13.70 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $13.91 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $14.26 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $14.32 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $14.44 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $14.53 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $14.81 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $14.95 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $19.11 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $23.40 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $23.40 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $25.03 ↓ -64%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $26.03 ↓ -63%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $27.84 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $28.31 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $32.57 ↓ -54%
Aetna ACO $68.91 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $73.12 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $76.05 ↑ +8%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $80.83 ↑ +15%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $80.83 ↑ +15%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $80.83 ↑ +15%
Aetna Commercial $86.11 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $87.98 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $99.45 ↑ +42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $101.75 ↑ +45%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $150.40 ↑ +114%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $150.40 ↑ +114%

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Protein c activity at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $310.20 $13.68 – $413.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $100.20 $4.99 – $150.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $70.20 $13.70 – $99.45
UPMC Cole Coudersport $137.40 $9.00 – $183.20
UPMC East Monroeville $289.20 $13.68 – $385.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $571.80 $13.68 – $37.62
UPMC Northwest Seneca $121.20 $12.55 – $21.98
UPMC Hanover Hanover $70.20 $13.70 – $26.03

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