Culture fungi other (except blood) at UPMC East

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

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

$125.40

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.

$209.00

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.

$8.31 with UPMC Work Partners vs $167.20 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.

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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 $8.31 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.43 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $8.59 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $8.83 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $8.83 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.00 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $9.08 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $9.08 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $9.08 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.08 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $9.25 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $9.25 ↓ -93%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $9.70 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $10.18 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.67 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $11.15 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $13.48 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $14.39 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $15.14 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $16.40 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $16.53 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $28.51 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $37.02 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $38.18 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $47.47 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $63.57 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $68.97 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $73.36 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $76.36 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $79.42 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $79.84 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $81.51 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $81.51 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $81.51 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $81.51 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $83.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $83.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $83.60 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $104.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $146.30 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $167.20 ↑ +33%

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Culture fungi other (except blood) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $118.80 $8.31 – $158.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $58.80 $3.03 – $88.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $46.80 $8.33 – $66.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $60.00 $5.47 – $80.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $46.80 $8.33 – $66.30
UPMC Hamot Erie $125.40 $8.31 – $16.25
UPMC Northwest Seneca $80.40 $7.63 – $11.15
UPMC Hanover Hanover $46.80 $8.33 – $13.46

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