Split blood or products at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$330.00
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.
$550.00
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.
$81.44 with UPMC Health Plan vs $519.50 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $81.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $102.89 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $151.43 | ↓ -54% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $163.37 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $167.58 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $171.54 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $176.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $176.44 | ↓ -47% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $176.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $178.67 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $179.71 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $190.85 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $207.35 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $209.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $211.75 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $211.75 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $220.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $220.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $239.29 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $275.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $288.40 | ↓ -13% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $302.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $330.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $385.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $387.89 | ↑ +18% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $440.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $440.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $467.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $519.50 | ↑ +57% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Split blood or products at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $71.40 | $59.50 – $176.44 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $201.60 | $46.03 – $285.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $201.60 | $67.20 – $288.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $786.00 | $79.34 – $1,048.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $284.40 | $11.30 – $213.04 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $201.60 | $69.44 – $288.40 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $109.20 | $80.33 – $176.44 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $109.20 | $1.92 – $176.44 |