Blood split unit at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$173.40
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.
$289.00
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.
$50.67 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $637.36 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $50.67 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $69.44 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $88.07 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $95.37 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $101.44 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $109.82 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $110.40 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $112.71 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $112.71 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $112.71 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $112.71 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $115.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $115.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $115.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $117.95 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $135.56 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $138.11 | ↓ -20% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $141.95 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $141.95 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $144.50 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $144.65 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $145.99 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $146.01 | ↓ -16% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $146.01 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $146.01 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $146.64 | ↓ -15% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $148.71 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $148.71 | ↓ -14% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $158.95 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $158.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $196.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $202.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $231.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $235.91 | ↑ +36% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $525.22 | ↑ +203% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $637.36 | ↑ +268% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Blood split unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $247.80 | $50.19 – $330.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $315.00 | $48.78 – $472.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $192.60 | $43.98 – $272.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $192.60 | $64.20 – $525.22 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $275.40 | $50.19 – $168.51 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $300.60 | $69.44 – $146.01 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $192.60 | $72.67 – $525.22 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $417.00 | $69.44 – $146.01 |