Reticulocyte automated at UPMC East

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

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

$84.60

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.

$141.00

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.

$3.95 with UPMC Work Partners vs $112.80 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 $3.95 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.00 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $4.08 ↓ -95%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4.19 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $4.19 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.27 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.31 ↓ -95%
Cigna Medicare $4.31 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.31 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.31 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare $4.39 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $4.39 ↓ -95%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $4.50 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.95 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $5.17 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5.78 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.25 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $6.67 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.02 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $7.67 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $10.98 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $19.08 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $21.00 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $25.56 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $31.77 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $42.55 ↓ -50%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $46.53 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $49.49 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $51.11 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $53.58 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $53.86 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $54.99 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $54.99 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $54.99 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $54.99 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $56.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $56.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $56.40 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $70.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $98.70 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $112.80 ↑ +33%

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Reticulocyte automated at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $55.20 $3.95 – $73.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $33.00 $1.44 – $49.50
UPMC Hamot Erie $68.40 $3.95 – $10.87
UPMC Northwest Seneca $33.00 $3.62 – $5.17
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $33.00 $3.57 – $7.49
UPMC Jameson New Castle $16.80 $3.95 – $11.07
UPMC Kane Kane $21.60 $3.95 – $17.22
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $33.00 $3.73 – $10.98

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