External pretreatment of serum for use in antibody identification by dilution at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$193.80
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.
$323.00
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.
$9.66 with UPMC Health Plan vs $361.76 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.
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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $9.66 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $23.41 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $23.85 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $24.52 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $24.52 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $24.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $25.22 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $25.22 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $25.22 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $25.22 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $25.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $25.68 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $35.11 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $106.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $113.37 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $122.74 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $123.39 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $125.97 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $125.97 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $125.97 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $125.97 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $129.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $129.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $129.20 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $161.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $161.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $177.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $177.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $180.88 | ↓ -7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $180.88 | ↓ -7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $184.11 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $184.11 | ↓ -5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $226.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $258.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $361.76 | ↑ +87% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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External pretreatment of serum for use in antibody identification by dilution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $192.00 | $9.78 – $43.82 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $192.00 | $2.64 – $25.22 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $177.00 | $10.22 – $25.68 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $192.60 | $9.91 – $25.68 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $218.40 | $9.69 – $25.68 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $121.20 | $19.49 – $19.49 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $192.60 | $9.74 – $25.68 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $181.80 | $10.28 – $25.68 |