Warde virus isolation tissue culture innoculation presumptive id herpes simplex at UPMC East

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

$388.80

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.

$648.00

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.

$25.77 with UPMC Work Partners vs $518.40 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 $25.77 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $26.14 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $26.63 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $27.37 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $27.37 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $27.89 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $28.15 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $28.16 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $28.16 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $28.16 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $28.68 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $28.68 ↓ -93%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $36.02 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $36.85 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $39.62 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $41.42 ↓ -89%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $50.06 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $50.85 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $53.42 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $56.23 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $61.39 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $88.40 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $118.39 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $133.95 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $147.19 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $197.12 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $213.84 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $227.45 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $236.78 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $246.24 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $247.54 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $252.72 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $252.72 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $252.72 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $252.72 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $259.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $259.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $259.20 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $324.00 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $453.60 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $518.40 ↑ +33%

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Warde virus isolation tissue culture innoculation presumptive id herpes simplex at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $274.20 $25.77 – $365.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $127.20 $9.41 – $190.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $145.20 $25.81 – $205.70
UPMC Cole Coudersport $175.80 $16.95 – $234.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $145.20 $25.81 – $205.70
UPMC Hamot Erie $147.60 $25.77 – $50.37
UPMC Northwest Seneca $129.60 $23.64 – $41.42
UPMC Hanover Hanover $145.20 $25.81 – $49.06

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