Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer manual screening at UPMC East

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

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

$61.20

Cash price

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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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$102.00

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.

$16.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $210.05 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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

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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $16.00 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $17.60 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $18.40 ↓ -70%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $20.02 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $20.31 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $20.70 ↓ -66%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $21.27 ↓ -65%
Aetna of PA Medicare $21.27 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare Medicare $21.68 ↓ -65%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $21.88 ↓ -64%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $21.88 ↓ -64%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $21.88 ↓ -64%
Cigna Medicare $21.88 ↓ -64%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $22.24 ↓ -64%
Aetna Medicare $22.29 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $22.29 ↓ -64%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $23.73 ↓ -61%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $24.98 ↓ -59%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $27.27 ↓ -55%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $33.66 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $35.80 ↓ -42%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $37.22 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $38.76 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $38.96 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $39.78 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $39.78 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $39.78 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $39.78 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $40.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $40.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $40.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $45.11 ↓ -26%
InterGroup PPO $51.00 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $71.40 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $78.42 ↑ +28%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $81.60 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $105.02 ↑ +72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $130.57 ↑ +113%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $135.30 ↑ +121%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $174.86 ↑ +186%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $210.05 ↑ +243%

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Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer manual screening at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $61.20 $16.00 – $81.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $61.20 $7.31 – $91.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $48.60 $11.10 – $68.85
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $115.20 $16.00 – $135.30
UPMC Northwest Seneca $61.20 $17.60 – $21.88
UPMC Hanover Hanover $48.60 $16.00 – $32.42
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $61.20 $16.00 – $38.02
UPMC Kane Kane $124.20 $17.60 – $87.44

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