Folic acid at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$90.60
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.
$151.00
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.
$13.20 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $144.87 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $13.20 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $13.20 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $13.63 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $14.53 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $14.70 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $15.08 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $15.44 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $15.88 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $15.88 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $15.88 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $16.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $17.80 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $18.73 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $20.45 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $25.32 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $28.69 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $49.82 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $52.40 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $56.93 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $57.38 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $58.13 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $58.13 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $60.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $60.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $66.73 | ↓ -26% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $75.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $89.66 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $90.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $105.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $108.17 | ↑ +19% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $120.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $120.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $128.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $144.87 | ↑ +60% |
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Folic acid at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $120.00 | $12.00 – $160.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $83.40 | $5.30 – $125.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $75.00 | $12.00 – $106.25 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $105.00 | $9.55 – $140.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $75.00 | $12.00 – $90.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $222.00 | $12.00 – $296.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $201.60 | $12.00 – $28.42 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $89.40 | $13.20 – $15.88 |