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Cholesterol (Lipid) Test at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$409.20
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.
$682.00
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.
$12.53 with UPMC Health Plan vs $311.88 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 | $12.53 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $13.24 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $13.74 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $14.06 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $14.46 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $14.46 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $14.46 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $14.73 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $15.40 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $15.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $18.20 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $20.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $20.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $21.79 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $22.15 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $23.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $27.49 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $43.70 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $58.52 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $70.39 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $87.79 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $92.21 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $122.04 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $123.49 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $132.21 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $132.89 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $135.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $135.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $135.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $135.60 | ↓ -67% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $169.50 | ↓ -59% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $237.30 | ↓ -42% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $271.20 | ↓ -34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $288.15 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Commercial | $288.15 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $311.88 | ↓ -24% |
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Cholesterol (Lipid) Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $302.40 | $12.44 – $428.40 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $241.20 | $11.16 – $361.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $720.00 | $13.24 – $1,020.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $274.80 | $11.56 – $389.30 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $143.40 | $13.24 – $191.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $66.60 | $4.83 – $99.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $97.80 | $8.70 – $130.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $212.40 | $13.24 – $283.20 |