Natriuretic peptide at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$360.60
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.
$601.00
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.
$36.39 with UPMC Health Plan vs $510.85 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.
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 | Managed Medicare | $36.39 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $36.69 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $38.79 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $39.26 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $40.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $41.22 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $41.73 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $41.73 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $42.40 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $42.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $42.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $43.19 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $56.27 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $59.23 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $64.66 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $91.97 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $129.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $159.70 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $208.55 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $213.89 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $226.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $228.38 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $231.38 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $231.38 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $240.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $240.40 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $300.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $346.72 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $360.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $420.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $464.36 | ↑ +29% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $480.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $480.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $510.85 | ↑ +42% |
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Natriuretic peptide at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $159.00 | $37.94 – $212.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $273.00 | $14.17 – $409.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $199.20 | $37.94 – $282.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $321.60 | $25.52 – $428.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $199.20 | $37.94 – $282.20 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $704.40 | $35.74 – $939.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $192.00 | $37.94 – $91.10 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $287.40 | $35.60 – $43.63 |