Chloride 24 hour urine 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

$88.20

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.

$147.00

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.

$5.38 with UPMC Health Plan vs $135.24 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 Medicare $5.38 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.68 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $5.90 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $6.04 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $6.21 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $6.21 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $6.21 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $6.33 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.64 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $7.64 ↓ -91%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $9.04 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $9.81 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.31 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $10.51 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.82 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.00 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $11.84 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $15.60 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $20.89 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $31.34 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $32.92 ↓ -63%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $36.12 ↓ -59%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $44.09 ↓ -50%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $52.92 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $57.33 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $57.62 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $58.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $58.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $58.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $58.80 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $73.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $102.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $117.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $124.95 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $124.95 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $135.24 ↑ +53%

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Chloride 24 hour urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $50.40 $4.79 – $9.72
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $126.60 $5.34 – $9.81
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $382.20 $5.68 – $10.82
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $80.40 $4.96 – $10.85
UPMC Altoona Altoona $67.80 $5.68 – $90.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $33.00 $2.07 – $49.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $29.40 $5.69 – $41.65
UPMC Cole Coudersport $40.20 $3.74 – $53.60

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