Glucose tolerance test (gtt) >3 specimens each additional at UPMC McKeesport

1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353

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

$46.20

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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.

$77.00

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.

$3.60 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $65.45 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 $3.60 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $3.60 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $3.63 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.88 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $3.92 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $4.02 ↓ -91%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4.12 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.23 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.23 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.23 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $4.31 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4.85 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $5.10 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $5.20 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $5.57 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $6.45 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $9.03 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $12.09 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $19.60 ↓ -58%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $22.85 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $26.24 ↓ -43%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $26.72 ↓ -42%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $29.03 ↓ -37%
Aetna EBR FI $29.26 ↓ -37%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $29.64 ↓ -36%
Cigna New Business ASO $29.64 ↓ -36%
Aetna EBR ASO $30.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $30.80 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $38.50 ↓ -17%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $46.20 ↑ +0%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $53.90 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $61.60 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $61.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $65.45 ↑ +42%

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Glucose tolerance test (gtt) >3 specimens each additional at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $15.00 $3.27 – $20.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $24.60 $1.41 – $36.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $20.40 $3.27 – $28.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $20.40 $2.55 – $27.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $20.40 $3.27 – $22.85
UPMC East Monroeville $39.60 $3.27 – $52.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $59.40 $3.27 – $5.15
UPMC Northwest Seneca $34.80 $3.56 – $4.23

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