Magnesium at UPMC East

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

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

$99.00

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.

$165.00

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.

$6.62 with UPMC Work Partners vs $132.00 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6.62 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $6.72 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $6.84 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $7.04 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $7.04 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $7.17 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $7.24 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $7.24 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $7.24 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $7.24 ↓ -93%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $7.25 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $7.37 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $7.37 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $7.43 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.97 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $8.34 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.08 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.75 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.32 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $12.36 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $12.99 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $22.57 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $26.99 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $30.23 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $37.58 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $50.34 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $54.45 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $57.91 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $60.46 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $62.70 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $63.03 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $64.35 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $64.35 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $64.35 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $64.35 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $66.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $66.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $66.00 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $82.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $115.50 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $132.00 ↑ +33%

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Magnesium at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $85.20 $6.62 – $113.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $41.40 $2.42 – $62.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $33.60 $6.63 – $47.60
UPMC Cole Coudersport $48.60 $4.36 – $64.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $40.20 $6.63 – $47.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $156.60 $6.62 – $12.86
UPMC Northwest Seneca $39.00 $6.08 – $8.34
UPMC Hanover Hanover $33.60 $6.63 – $10.72

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