Mayo organic acids qualitative each specimen at UPMC East

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

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

$225.00

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.

$375.00

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.

$16.26 with UPMC Work Partners vs $300.00 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 $16.26 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $16.49 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $16.81 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $17.27 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $17.27 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare $17.60 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $17.76 ↓ -92%
Cigna Medicare $17.77 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $17.77 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $17.77 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $18.09 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $18.09 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $18.20 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.02 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $20.93 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $25.30 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $26.99 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $28.41 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $31.02 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $36.71 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $44.12 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $76.69 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $102.71 ↓ -54%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $123.75 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $127.69 ↓ -43%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $131.62 ↓ -42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $133.45 ↓ -41%
Aetna EBR FI $142.50 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $143.25 ↓ -36%
Cigna New Business ASO $146.25 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $146.25 ↓ -35%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $146.25 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $146.25 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $150.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $150.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $150.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $171.01 ↓ -24%
InterGroup PPO $187.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $205.42 ↓ -9%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $262.50 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $300.00 ↑ +33%

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Mayo organic acids qualitative each specimen at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $217.20 $16.26 – $289.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $273.00 $16.26 – $43.70
UPMC Northwest Seneca $229.20 $14.92 – $20.93
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $161.40 $14.73 – $30.87
UPMC Jameson New Castle $229.80 $16.26 – $44.47
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $138.60 $15.40 – $44.12
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $102.00 $15.29 – $44.12

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