Drug test def 8-14 classes at UPMC East

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

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

$425.40

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.

$709.00

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.

$86.77 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $567.20 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $86.77 ↓ -80%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $98.39 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $108.23 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $113.15 ↓ -73%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $136.75 ↓ -68%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $145.91 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $150.83 ↓ -65%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $153.60 ↓ -64%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $157.01 ↓ -63%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $159.97 ↓ -62%
Aetna of PA Medicare $164.42 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $164.42 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Medicare $167.55 ↓ -61%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $167.68 ↓ -61%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $169.10 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $169.12 ↓ -60%
Cigna Medicare $169.12 ↓ -60%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $169.12 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare $172.25 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $172.25 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $202.01 ↓ -53%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $233.97 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $248.86 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $251.14 ↓ -41%
Aetna EBR FI $269.42 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $270.84 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $276.51 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $276.51 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $276.51 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $276.51 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial $283.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $283.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $283.60 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $321.33 ↓ -24%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $336.35 ↓ -21%
InterGroup PPO $354.50 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $389.93 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $404.02 ↓ -5%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $496.30 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $567.20 ↑ +33%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Drug test def 8-14 classes at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $399.60 $85.95 – $532.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $440.40 $56.50 – $660.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $345.00 $78.78 – $488.75
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $345.00 $98.39 – $488.75
UPMC Hamot Erie $465.60 $85.95 – $169.12
UPMC Northwest Seneca $239.40 $108.23 – $167.68
UPMC Hanover Hanover $345.00 $98.39 – $250.54
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $108.60 $98.39 – $169.12

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