C-reactive protein at UPMC East

2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$76.20

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.

Full explanation →

What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$127.00

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.

Full explanation →

The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$3.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $101.60 with Private Health Care Systems — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
?

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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $3.00 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $3.30 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $3.45 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4.17 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4.45 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.68 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $5.11 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.12 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $5.19 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $5.29 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $5.44 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $5.44 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.54 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5.59 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $5.59 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $5.59 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $5.59 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $5.70 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $5.70 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $9.86 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $10.10 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $17.55 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $23.50 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $29.22 ↓ -62%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $35.84 ↓ -53%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $39.13 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $41.91 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $44.58 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $47.01 ↓ -38%
Aetna EBR FI $48.26 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $48.51 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $49.53 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $49.53 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $49.53 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $49.53 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $50.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $50.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $50.80 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $63.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $88.90 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $101.60 ↑ +33%

Visitor-reported prices

visitor-reported
Report what you paid sign in to post

Comments

Add a comment sign in to post

C-reactive protein at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $60.60 $3.00 – $80.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $58.80 $1.87 – $88.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $29.40 $3.00 – $41.65
UPMC Cole Coudersport $40.80 $3.15 – $54.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $29.40 $3.00 – $35.84
UPMC Hamot Erie $93.60 $3.00 – $10.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $40.80 $3.30 – $5.44
UPMC Hanover Hanover $29.40 $3.00 – $8.29

All Pennsylvania hospitals for this procedure →