Measurement post void urine by ultrasound at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$56.40
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.
$94.00
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.
$11.71 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $419.78 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $11.71 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $15.48 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $16.18 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $19.56 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $20.87 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $21.22 | ↓ -62% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $21.96 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $23.98 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $29.37 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $30.59 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $31.24 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $33.82 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $33.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $34.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $34.71 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $34.71 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $34.71 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $34.71 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $35.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $35.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | EBR | $35.60 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $35.70 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $40.96 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $43.65 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $44.50 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $45.39 | ↓ -20% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $56.78 | ↑ +1% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $57.85 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $59.46 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $59.46 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $60.59 | ↑ +7% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $61.15 | ↑ +8% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $61.16 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $61.16 | ↑ +8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $61.16 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $62.29 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $62.29 | ↑ +10% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $62.30 | ↑ +10% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $71.20 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $81.93 | ↑ +45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $419.78 | ↑ +644% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Measurement post void urine by ultrasound at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $139.20 | $11.60 – $185.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $254.40 | $14.77 – $381.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $60.00 | $14.77 – $88.25 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $151.80 | $17.60 – $419.78 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $566.40 | $11.60 – $82.37 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $256.80 | $15.48 – $59.46 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $125.40 | $17.87 – $90.78 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $173.40 | $15.48 – $61.16 |