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Lung Function Test (Spirometry) at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$142.20
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.
$237.00
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.
$16.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $194.97 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 | Managed Medicaid | $16.50 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $17.25 | ↓ -88% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $20.85 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $22.25 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $22.62 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $23.42 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $25.56 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $27.87 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $72.79 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $74.54 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $78.21 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $80.65 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $83.19 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $90.06 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $90.38 | ↓ -36% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $90.45 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $90.53 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $92.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $92.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $92.43 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $92.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $94.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $94.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $94.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $97.48 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $108.02 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $118.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $149.57 | ↑ +5% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $152.39 | ↑ +7% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $156.63 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $156.63 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $159.61 | ↑ +12% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $161.09 | ↑ +13% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $161.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $161.10 | ↑ +13% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $161.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $164.09 | ↑ +15% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $164.09 | ↑ +15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $165.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $189.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $194.97 | ↑ +37% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Lung Function Test (Spirometry) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $171.60 | $16.50 – $243.10 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $150.00 | $16.50 – $205.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $346.20 | $11.79 – $490.45 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $199.80 | $9.00 – $266.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $171.60 | $15.75 – $257.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $100.20 | $15.75 – $92.23 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $346.20 | $11.79 – $280.50 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $346.20 | $11.79 – $501.99 |