Cell cryopreserve/storage at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$63.00
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.
$105.00
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.
$12.23 with UPMC Health Plan vs $121.64 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $12.23 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $12.92 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $13.41 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $13.72 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $14.11 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $14.12 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $14.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $14.38 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $17.64 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $24.21 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $27.08 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $35.28 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $38.22 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $38.42 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $39.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $39.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $39.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $39.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $43.04 | ↓ -32% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $49.00 | ↓ -22% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $53.90 | ↓ -14% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $53.90 | ↓ -14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $57.64 | ↓ -9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $68.60 | ↑ +9% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $78.40 | ↑ +24% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $83.16 | ↑ +32% |
| Humana | Commercial | $83.30 | ↑ +32% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $83.30 | ↑ +32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $86.47 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $90.16 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $90.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $121.64 | ↑ +93% |
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Cell cryopreserve/storage at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $99.60 | $10.90 – $26.82 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $117.60 | $12.15 – $27.08 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $85.20 | $9.56 – $27.08 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $66.60 | $11.28 – $27.08 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $133.80 | $12.92 – $169.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $66.60 | $12.92 – $88.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $150.60 | $12.92 – $26.82 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $165.60 | $11.85 – $14.12 |