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Metabolic Blood Panel (Comprehensive) 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

$665.40

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.

$1,109.00

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.

$9.79 with UPMC Health Plan vs $942.65 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $9.79 ↓ -99%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $10.43 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.56 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $10.83 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $11.09 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $11.40 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $11.40 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $11.40 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $11.62 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $12.86 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $12.86 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $17.34 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $18.25 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $19.92 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $20.35 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $28.34 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $49.20 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $65.90 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $72.07 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $106.82 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $143.07 ↓ -78%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $384.82 ↓ -42%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $418.09 ↓ -37%
Aetna EBR FI $421.42 ↓ -37%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $426.96 ↓ -36%
Cigna New Business ASO $426.96 ↓ -36%
Cigna Commercial $443.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $443.60 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $554.50 ↓ -17%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $665.40 ↑ +0%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $776.30 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $887.20 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $887.20 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $942.65 ↑ +42%

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Metabolic Blood Panel (Comprehensive) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $282.00 $9.81 – $376.55
UPMC Altoona Altoona $156.00 $10.43 – $208.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $66.60 $3.81 – $99.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $100.80 $6.86 – $134.40
UPMC East Monroeville $216.00 $10.43 – $288.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $451.80 $10.43 – $527.10
UPMC Hanover Hanover $68.40 $10.39 – $99.18
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $68.40 $10.39 – $96.90

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