Chronic urticaria - sendout at UPMC East

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

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

$264.60

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.

$441.00

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.

$12.32 with UPMC Work Partners vs $352.80 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.

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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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $12.32 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $12.49 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $12.73 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $13.08 ↓ -95%
Aetna of PA Medicare $13.08 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicare $13.33 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $13.46 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $13.46 ↓ -95%
Cigna Medicare $13.46 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.46 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare $13.71 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $13.71 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $24.40 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $34.19 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $59.43 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $79.60 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $88.70 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $98.96 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $132.53 ↓ -50%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $145.53 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $154.79 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $159.20 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $167.58 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $168.46 ↓ -36%
Cigna New Business ASO $171.99 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $171.99 ↓ -35%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $171.99 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $171.99 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $176.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $176.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $176.40 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $220.50 ↓ -17%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $242.55 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $242.55 ↓ -8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $308.70 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $352.80 ↑ +33%

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Chronic urticaria - sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $132.60 $12.32 – $176.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $220.20 $4.50 – $330.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $24.60 $5.62 – $34.85
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $24.60 $8.20 – $88.70
UPMC Hamot Erie $199.20 $12.32 – $33.87
UPMC Northwest Seneca $114.60 $11.30 – $13.46
UPMC Hanover Hanover $24.60 $9.96 – $88.70
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $123.00 $11.16 – $23.38

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