Red blood cells leukocytes reduced each unit at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$1,134.60
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.
$1,891.00
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.
$127.46 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,012.43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $127.46 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $160.84 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $178.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $182.20 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $187.40 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $187.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $187.40 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $189.29 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $190.87 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $262.51 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $398.57 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $656.18 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $692.13 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $712.91 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $718.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $728.03 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $728.03 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $756.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $756.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $926.96 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $945.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,040.05 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,134.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,323.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,502.62 | ↑ +32% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,512.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,512.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,607.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,012.43 | ↑ +77% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $709.80 | $127.46 – $946.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $916.20 | $62.61 – $1,374.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $269.40 | $61.51 – $381.65 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $269.40 | $89.80 – $381.65 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,360.20 | $127.46 – $1,813.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $831.60 | $187.82 – $394.81 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $808.80 | $154.23 – $189.29 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $269.40 | $127.46 – $278.18 |