Assay of urine sulfate at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$99.60
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.
$166.00
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.
$5.43 with UPMC Work Partners vs $132.80 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $5.43 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $5.50 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $5.61 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $5.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5.76 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5.93 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $5.93 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $6.04 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $6.04 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $7.56 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $13.02 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $22.64 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $27.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $30.32 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $37.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $50.48 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $54.78 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $58.27 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $60.64 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $63.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $63.41 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $64.74 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $64.74 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $64.74 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $64.74 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $66.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $66.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $66.40 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $83.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $91.30 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $91.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $116.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $132.80 | ↑ +33% |
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Assay of urine sulfate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $35.40 | $5.43 – $47.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $80.40 | $1.98 – $120.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $27.60 | $3.02 – $39.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $27.60 | $4.39 – $28.05 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $72.60 | $5.43 – $12.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $43.80 | $4.98 – $5.93 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $27.60 | $4.39 – $27.50 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $36.60 | $4.92 – $10.30 |