Antibody screen rbc at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$153.00

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.

$255.00

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.

$9.10 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $221.72 with Multiplan — 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $9.10 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $9.14 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $9.29 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $9.29 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $9.66 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $10.02 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $10.26 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.55 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $10.55 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $10.55 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $10.75 ↓ -93%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $10.98 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $12.53 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $12.60 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $13.15 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $13.37 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $14.40 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $14.47 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $19.37 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $29.06 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $30.53 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $40.88 ↓ -73%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $43.29 ↓ -72%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $86.76 ↓ -43%
Aetna EBR FI $93.99 ↓ -39%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $94.47 ↓ -38%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $96.40 ↓ -37%
Aetna EBR ASO $96.40 ↓ -37%
Cigna New Business ASO $96.40 ↓ -37%
Cigna Commercial $96.40 ↓ -37%
InterGroup PPO $120.50 ↓ -21%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $168.70 ↑ +10%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $192.80 ↑ +26%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $204.85 ↑ +34%
Humana Commercial $204.85 ↑ +34%
Multiplan PPO $221.72 ↑ +45%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Antibody screen rbc at other Pennsylvania hospitals

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UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $39.60 $8.14 – $10.75
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $115.80 $9.08 – $11.23
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