Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$342.00
Cash price 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.
$570.00
Gross charge 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.
$57.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $484.50 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $57.00 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $60.78 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $61.50 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $63.09 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $64.58 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $66.42 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $66.42 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $66.42 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $67.65 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $74.70 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $94.28 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $163.71 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $197.79 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $214.89 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $216.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $219.26 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $219.45 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $219.45 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $228.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $228.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $264.54 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $285.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $313.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $342.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $355.42 | ↑ +4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $399.00 | ↑ +17% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $456.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $456.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $476.01 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Commercial | $484.50 | ↑ +42% |
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Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $463.20 | $60.78 – $617.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $606.60 | $22.19 – $909.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $222.60 | $33.83 – $315.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $321.00 | $39.98 – $428.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $222.60 | $49.15 – $315.35 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $721.80 | $60.78 – $962.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $198.00 | $47.23 – $93.39 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $526.20 | $55.77 – $66.42 |