Uric acid urine at UPMC Community Osteopathic

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

$25.80

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.

$43.00

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.

$4.50 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $24.67 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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.50 ↓ -83%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $4.60 ↓ -82%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $4.60 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $5.03 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $5.10 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $5.23 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.26 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $5.30 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $5.33 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.44 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5.49 ↓ -79%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $5.57 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $5.89 ↓ -77%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $6.13 ↓ -76%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.55 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $7.67 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $8.06 ↓ -69%
Aetna ACO $13.55 ↓ -47%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $14.38 ↓ -44%
InterGroup PPO $14.95 ↓ -42%
Aetna Commercial $16.93 ↓ -34%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $17.30 ↓ -33%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $19.55 ↓ -24%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $20.22 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $20.22 ↓ -22%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $20.22 ↓ -22%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $24.67 ↓ -4%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $24.67 ↓ -4%

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Uric acid urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $82.80 $4.50 – $110.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $28.20 $1.83 – $42.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $25.80 $4.50 – $36.55
UPMC Cole Coudersport $24.00 $3.30 – $32.00
UPMC East Monroeville $47.40 $2.22 – $63.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $118.20 $4.03 – $6.25
UPMC Northwest Seneca $36.00 $2.24 – $5.49
UPMC Hanover Hanover $25.80 $4.50 – $8.13

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