Hemoglobin methemoglobin quantitative at UPMC East

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

$45.00

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.

$75.00

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.

$3.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $60.00 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $3.00 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $3.30 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $3.45 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4.17 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4.45 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.68 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $5.11 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $6.67 ↓ -85%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.11 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.22 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $8.38 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $8.61 ↓ -81%
Aetna of PA Medicare $8.61 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.77 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.86 ↓ -80%
Cigna Medicare $8.86 ↓ -80%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.86 ↓ -80%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.86 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $9.02 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $9.02 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $11.97 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $20.81 ↓ -54%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $24.25 ↓ -46%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $24.75 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $26.32 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $27.87 ↓ -38%
Aetna EBR FI $28.50 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $28.65 ↓ -36%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $29.25 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $29.25 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $29.25 ↓ -35%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $29.25 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial $30.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $30.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $30.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $34.65 ↓ -23%
InterGroup PPO $37.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $46.41 ↑ +3%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $52.50 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $55.74 ↑ +24%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $60.00 ↑ +33%

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Hemoglobin methemoglobin quantitative at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $40.20 $3.00 – $53.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $45.00 $3.00 – $63.75
UPMC Cole Coudersport $33.00 $3.15 – $44.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $45.00 $3.00 – $63.75
UPMC Hamot Erie $68.40 $3.00 – $11.86
UPMC Northwest Seneca $54.00 $3.30 – $8.61
UPMC Hanover Hanover $45.00 $3.00 – $13.12
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $56.40 $3.00 – $15.39

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