Cftr gene dup/delet variants 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

$3,002.40

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.

$5,004.00

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.

$382.87 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $4,603.68 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $382.87 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $382.87 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $407.18 ↓ -86%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $429.99 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $446.29 ↓ -85%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $452.48 ↓ -85%
Aetna of PA Medicare $456.82 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $469.83 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Medicare $469.88 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $469.88 ↓ -84%
Aetna Medicare $478.58 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $500.43 ↓ -83%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $516.17 ↓ -83%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $541.83 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $550.77 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $593.16 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $795.45 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $1,065.33 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,598.00 ↓ -47%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $1,678.59 ↓ -44%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,751.40 ↓ -42%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1,801.44 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $1,951.56 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1,961.57 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $2,001.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $2,001.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $2,001.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2,001.60 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,176.74 ↓ -28%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $2,248.01 ↓ -25%
InterGroup PPO $2,502.00 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,502.80 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $4,003.20 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $4,253.40 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $4,253.40 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $4,603.68 ↑ +53%

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Cftr gene dup/delet variants at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $4,592.40 $382.87 – $500.43
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $3,002.40 $348.06 – $541.83
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,890.80 $348.06 – $3,854.40

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