Assay of osteocalcin at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$319.20
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.
$532.00
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.
$27.94 with UPMC Health Plan vs $489.44 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $27.94 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $29.50 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $30.62 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $31.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $32.24 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $32.24 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $32.24 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $32.84 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $45.38 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $45.38 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $53.62 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $61.17 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $64.21 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $65.27 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $70.30 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $70.81 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $81.91 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $130.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $174.37 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $191.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $207.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $208.54 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $212.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $212.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $212.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $212.80 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $243.26 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $261.56 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $266.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $274.75 | ↓ -14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $367.95 | ↑ +15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $372.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $425.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $452.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $452.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $489.44 | ↑ +53% |
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Assay of osteocalcin at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $297.00 | $24.88 – $81.14 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $223.20 | $27.74 – $81.91 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $159.60 | $29.50 – $81.91 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $467.40 | $25.77 – $81.91 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $300.00 | $29.50 – $400.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $508.20 | $10.77 – $762.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $150.60 | $10.10 – $213.35 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $150.60 | $29.55 – $243.26 |