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Blood Count (CBC) Test 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

$52.20

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.

$87.00

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.

$6.60 with UPMC Health Plan vs $80.04 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $6.60 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $6.60 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $7.27 ↓ -86%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $7.68 ↓ -85%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $7.80 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $7.97 ↓ -85%
Aetna of PA Medicare $8.16 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.39 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.39 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.39 ↓ -84%
Aetna Medicare $8.55 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $8.90 ↓ -83%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.34 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $9.49 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $10.23 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $14.39 ↓ -72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $15.16 ↓ -71%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $24.10 ↓ -54%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $31.32 ↓ -40%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $32.28 ↓ -38%
Aetna EBR FI $33.93 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $34.10 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $34.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $34.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $34.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $34.80 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $43.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $48.42 ↓ -7%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $49.45 ↓ -5%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $50.86 ↓ -3%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $60.90 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $68.11 ↑ +30%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $69.60 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $73.95 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $73.95 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $80.04 ↑ +53%

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Blood Count (CBC) Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $235.20 $6.60 – $333.20
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $66.60 $6.48 – $99.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $241.20 $6.00 – $341.70
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $93.00 $6.60 – $131.75
UPMC Altoona Altoona $89.40 $6.00 – $119.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $49.80 $2.80 – $74.70
UPMC Cole Coudersport $42.60 $5.05 – $56.80
UPMC East Monroeville $115.80 $6.00 – $154.40

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