Carotene at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$138.00
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.
$230.00
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.
$9.12 with UPMC Work Partners vs $184.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $9.12 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $9.24 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $9.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $9.68 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $9.68 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $9.87 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $9.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $9.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $9.96 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $9.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $10.14 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $10.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $11.00 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $11.65 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $12.10 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $12.65 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $15.29 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $16.31 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $17.17 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $18.01 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $18.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $31.32 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $41.94 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $42.34 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $52.14 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $69.83 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $75.90 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $80.73 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $83.88 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $87.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $87.86 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $89.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $89.70 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $89.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $89.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $92.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $92.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $92.00 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $115.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $161.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $184.00 | ↑ +33% |
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Carotene at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $110.40 | $9.12 – $147.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $177.60 | $3.33 – $266.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $46.80 | $9.13 – $66.30 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $65.40 | $5.99 – $87.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $46.80 | $9.13 – $66.30 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $65.40 | $8.36 – $12.65 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $46.80 | $9.13 – $14.98 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $45.00 | $8.25 – $17.30 |