Warde cadmium blood 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

$301.20

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.

$502.00

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.

$20.90 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $426.70 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 $20.90 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.90 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $21.91 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $23.36 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $23.64 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $24.25 ↓ -92%
Aetna of PA Medicare $24.82 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $25.53 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $25.53 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $25.53 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $26.00 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $28.18 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $29.66 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $31.80 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $32.38 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $36.76 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $63.84 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $85.49 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $112.62 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $138.59 ↓ -54%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $174.19 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $185.61 ↓ -38%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $189.25 ↓ -37%
Aetna EBR FI $190.76 ↓ -37%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $193.27 ↓ -36%
Cigna New Business ASO $193.27 ↓ -36%
Aetna EBR ASO $200.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $200.80 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $251.00 ↓ -17%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $301.20 ↑ +0%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $351.40 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $401.60 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $401.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $426.70 ↑ +42%

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Warde cadmium blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $235.20 $19.00 – $313.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $80.40 $8.53 – $120.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $119.40 $7.64 – $169.15
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $119.40 $19.00 – $169.15
UPMC East Monroeville $282.60 $19.00 – $376.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $158.40 $19.00 – $36.41
UPMC Northwest Seneca $124.20 $20.90 – $25.53
UPMC Hanover Hanover $119.40 $7.64 – $37.82

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