Culture body fluid at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$128.40
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.
$214.00
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.
$6.90 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $171.20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.90 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $7.59 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $7.93 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.52 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $8.64 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $8.81 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $9.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $9.05 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $9.22 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $9.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $9.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $9.31 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $9.31 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $9.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.59 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $10.23 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $10.77 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10.80 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $11.76 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $16.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $29.19 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $39.10 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $39.26 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $48.61 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $65.10 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $70.62 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $75.11 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $78.20 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $81.32 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $81.75 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $83.46 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $83.46 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $83.46 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $83.46 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $85.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $85.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $85.60 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $107.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $149.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $171.20 | ↑ +33% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $108.00 | $6.90 – $144.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $66.60 | $3.11 – $99.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $48.00 | $6.90 – $68.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $61.20 | $5.60 – $81.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $48.00 | $6.90 – $66.30 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $105.00 | $6.90 – $16.64 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $84.60 | $7.59 – $9.31 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $48.00 | $6.90 – $13.79 |