Cytopathology cellular enhancement technique non-gyn at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$354.00
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.
$590.00
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.
$40.31 with UPMC Health Plan vs $511.63 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.
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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $40.31 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $47.22 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $50.94 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $52.25 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $53.49 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $55.02 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $55.02 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $55.02 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $56.03 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $101.29 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $101.29 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $101.33 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $136.55 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $142.74 | ↓ -60% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $143.75 | ↓ -59% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $156.92 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $175.96 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $204.73 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $218.54 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $222.43 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $224.20 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $227.15 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $227.15 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $235.67 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $236.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $236.00 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $295.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $354.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $382.02 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $413.00 | ↑ +17% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $472.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $472.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $501.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $511.63 | ↑ +45% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cytopathology cellular enhancement technique non-gyn at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $177.60 | $41.26 – $236.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $591.60 | $18.38 – $887.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $116.40 | $26.58 – $228.71 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $128.40 | $42.51 – $218.54 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $265.20 | $38.80 – $228.71 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $776.40 | $39.27 – $1,035.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $375.00 | $23.43 – $218.54 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $316.20 | $39.63 – $218.54 |