Assay of glutathione at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$60.60
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.
$101.00
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.
$7.42 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $92.92 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.
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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $7.42 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $7.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $8.78 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $10.01 | ↓ -83% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $10.51 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $10.68 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $11.50 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $14.46 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $15.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $15.12 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $15.27 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $15.85 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $16.22 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $16.68 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $16.69 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $16.69 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $17.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $24.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $32.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $36.36 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $39.39 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $39.59 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $40.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $40.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $40.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $40.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $48.30 | ↓ -20% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $50.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $50.73 | ↓ -16% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $51.52 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $67.94 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $70.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $80.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $85.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $85.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $92.92 | ↑ +53% |
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Assay of glutathione at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $54.60 | $7.42 – $17.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $68.40 | $7.42 – $17.76 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $72.00 | $6.75 – $17.76 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $65.40 | $7.42 – $17.00 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $77.40 | $6.75 – $103.20 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $64.80 | $6.75 – $86.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $86.40 | $6.75 – $16.69 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $93.60 | $7.42 – $16.22 |