Thyroglobulin antibody at UPMC East

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

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

$225.60

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.

$376.00

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.

$15.73 with UPMC Work Partners vs $300.80 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 $15.73 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $15.95 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $16.25 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $16.71 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $16.71 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $17.02 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $17.18 ↓ -92%
Cigna Medicare $17.18 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $17.18 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $17.18 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $17.50 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $17.50 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $18.45 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $20.70 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $21.22 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $25.64 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $27.36 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $28.80 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $29.39 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $31.44 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $51.08 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $68.41 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $75.26 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $85.05 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $113.91 ↓ -50%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $124.08 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $131.98 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $136.83 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $142.88 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $143.63 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $146.64 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $146.64 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $146.64 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $146.64 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $150.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $150.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $150.40 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $188.00 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $263.20 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $300.80 ↑ +33%

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Thyroglobulin antibody at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $126.00 $15.73 – $168.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $106.20 $5.74 – $159.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $88.80 $15.75 – $125.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $132.60 $10.34 – $176.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $88.80 $15.75 – $125.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $193.20 $15.73 – $29.11
UPMC Northwest Seneca $223.20 $14.43 – $21.22
UPMC Hanover Hanover $88.80 $15.75 – $25.46

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