Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$85.20
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.
$142.00
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.
$7.39 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $73.02 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $7.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $11.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $12.06 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $15.74 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $16.16 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $17.07 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $17.72 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $18.65 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18.65 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $18.65 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $19.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $23.61 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $24.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $24.80 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $26.13 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $26.26 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $26.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $26.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $26.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $26.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $33.21 | ↓ -61% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $33.50 | ↓ -61% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $36.85 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $36.85 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $39.94 | ↓ -53% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $46.90 | ↓ -45% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $53.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $56.95 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $56.95 | ↓ -33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $61.64 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $73.02 | ↓ -14% |
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Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $100.20 | $7.32 – $19.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $56.40 | $7.39 – $19.85 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $366.00 | $7.39 – $40.23 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $282.60 | $7.39 – $19.00 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $136.80 | $7.32 – $182.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $100.20 | $6.23 – $150.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $87.60 | $9.50 – $124.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $87.60 | $13.79 – $124.10 |