Tissue culture skin/biopsy at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$2,340.60
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.
$3,901.00
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.
$139.08 with UPMC Work Partners vs $3,120.80 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.
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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $139.08 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $141.11 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $143.77 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $147.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $147.77 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $150.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $151.97 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $151.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $151.99 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $151.99 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $154.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $154.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $189.00 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $207.90 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $217.35 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $262.69 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $280.29 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $295.05 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $298.96 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $322.09 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $386.16 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $671.29 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $899.03 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,086.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,117.69 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1,287.33 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,369.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,482.38 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,490.18 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,496.90 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,521.39 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,521.39 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,521.39 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,521.39 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,560.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,560.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,560.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,798.07 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,950.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,730.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,120.80 | ↑ +33% |
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Tissue culture skin/biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,299.00 | $139.08 – $1,732.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,359.60 | $50.78 – $2,039.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,007.40 | $139.32 – $1,427.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $635.40 | $53.00 – $847.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,007.40 | $139.32 – $1,427.15 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,636.80 | $139.08 – $382.52 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,296.60 | $127.63 – $217.35 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,007.40 | $139.32 – $257.42 |