Ghs inhibitor screen at UPMC McKeesport

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$53.40

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.

$89.00

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.

$8.30 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $75.65 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.

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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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $8.30 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $8.30 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $9.09 ↓ -83%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $11.20 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.79 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $11.93 ↓ -78%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $12.72 ↓ -76%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $12.87 ↓ -76%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $12.87 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $13.20 ↓ -75%
Aetna of PA Medicare $13.51 ↓ -75%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $13.90 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $13.90 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.90 ↓ -74%
Aetna Medicare $14.16 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $14.64 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $25.42 ↓ -52%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $30.88 ↓ -42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $32.20 ↓ -40%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $33.55 ↓ -37%
Aetna EBR FI $33.82 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $34.04 ↓ -36%
Cigna New Business ASO $34.27 ↓ -36%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $34.27 ↓ -36%
Aetna EBR ASO $35.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $35.60 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $44.50 ↓ -17%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $53.40 ↑ +0%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $55.18 ↑ +3%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $62.30 ↑ +17%
SelectCare Commercial $71.20 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $71.20 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $73.90 ↑ +38%
Humana Commercial $75.65 ↑ +42%

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Ghs inhibitor screen at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $142.20 $7.55 – $189.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $104.40 $4.64 – $156.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $65.40 $7.55 – $92.65
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $65.40 $7.55 – $92.65
UPMC East Monroeville $118.20 $7.55 – $157.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $734.40 $7.55 – $14.50
UPMC Northwest Seneca $85.20 $8.30 – $13.51
UPMC Hanover Hanover $65.40 $7.55 – $20.59

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