Chromosome karyotype study at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$122.40
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.
$204.00
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.
$31.32 with UPMC Health Plan vs $219.93 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 | $31.32 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $33.08 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $34.33 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $35.14 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $36.14 | ↓ -70% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $36.15 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $36.15 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $36.82 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $37.79 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $38.15 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $38.15 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $45.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $48.96 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $51.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $53.99 | ↓ -56% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $54.88 | ↓ -55% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $59.10 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $69.12 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $74.88 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $75.26 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $76.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $76.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $76.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $76.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $77.82 | ↓ -36% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $96.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $104.22 | ↓ -15% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $129.81 | ↑ +6% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $134.40 | ↑ +10% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $153.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $156.34 | ↑ +28% |
| Humana | Commercial | $163.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $163.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $164.22 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $176.64 | ↑ +44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $219.93 | ↑ +80% |
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Chromosome karyotype study at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $181.80 | $27.90 – $48.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $266.40 | $33.08 – $53.99 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $120.60 | $27.54 – $170.85 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $115.80 | $21.76 – $154.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $120.60 | $33.14 – $170.85 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $274.80 | $33.08 – $48.50 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $120.60 | $33.14 – $53.55 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $136.80 | $33.08 – $144.46 |