Sugars single quant at UPMC East

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

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

$198.60

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.

$331.00

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.

$11.39 with UPMC Work Partners vs $264.80 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 $11.39 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $11.56 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $11.78 ↓ -94%
Aetna of PA Medicare $12.11 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $12.11 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $12.34 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $12.45 ↓ -94%
Cigna Medicare $12.45 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $12.45 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $12.45 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $12.68 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $12.68 ↓ -94%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $12.74 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $14.01 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $14.65 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $17.71 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $18.89 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $19.89 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $21.61 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $21.71 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $30.87 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $53.66 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $71.87 ↓ -64%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $78.57 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $89.34 ↓ -55%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $109.23 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $116.18 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $119.66 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $125.78 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $126.44 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $129.09 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $129.09 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $129.09 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $129.09 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $132.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $132.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $132.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $143.73 ↓ -28%
InterGroup PPO $165.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $231.70 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $264.80 ↑ +33%

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Sugars single quant at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $58.80 $8.15 – $83.30
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $58.80 $11.41 – $83.30
UPMC Hamot Erie $111.60 $11.39 – $30.58
UPMC Northwest Seneca $104.40 $10.46 – $14.65
UPMC Hanover Hanover $58.80 $8.15 – $18.45
UPMC Lititz Lititz $58.80 $8.15 – $18.45
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $114.60 $10.79 – $30.87
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $106.20 $10.69 – $30.87

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