Cryptosporidium antigen at UPMC East

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

$171.00

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.

$285.00

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.

$11.84 with UPMC Work Partners vs $228.00 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.

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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 $11.84 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $12.01 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $12.24 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $12.58 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $12.58 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $12.82 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $12.94 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $12.94 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $12.94 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $12.94 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $13.18 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $13.18 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $21.91 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $31.66 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $55.03 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $73.70 ↓ -57%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $79.63 ↓ -53%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $91.62 ↓ -46%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $94.05 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $100.03 ↓ -42%
Aetna EBR FI $108.30 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $108.87 ↓ -36%
United Healthcare All Business $111.15 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $111.15 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $111.15 ↓ -35%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $111.15 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial $114.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $114.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $114.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $122.71 ↓ -28%
InterGroup PPO $142.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $147.40 ↓ -14%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $156.75 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $156.75 ↓ -8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $199.50 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $228.00 ↑ +33%

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Cryptosporidium antigen at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $154.80 $11.84 – $206.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $194.40 $4.32 – $291.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $66.60 $6.59 – $94.35
UPMC Cole Coudersport $61.20 $7.79 – $81.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $66.60 $9.58 – $94.35
UPMC Hamot Erie $163.20 $11.84 – $31.36
UPMC Northwest Seneca $193.80 $10.86 – $12.94
UPMC Hanover Hanover $66.60 $9.58 – $79.63

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