Coagulation time otr method at UPMC Magee

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$32.40

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.

$54.00

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.

$4.20 with UPMC Health Plan vs $49.68 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.20 ↓ -87%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.44 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $4.61 ↓ -86%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4.71 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.85 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.85 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.85 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $4.94 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $5.65 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $5.65 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5.77 ↓ -82%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $6.68 ↓ -79%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $7.62 ↓ -76%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $8.00 ↓ -75%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $8.13 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $8.76 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $10.23 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $16.26 ↓ -50%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $19.44 ↓ -40%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $19.82 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $21.06 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $21.17 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $21.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $21.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $21.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $21.60 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $21.77 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $27.00 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $32.66 ↑ +1%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $34.30 ↑ +6%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $37.80 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $43.20 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $45.90 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $45.90 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $45.94 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $49.68 ↑ +53%

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Coagulation time otr method at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $47.40 $3.74 – $10.13
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $37.20 $4.17 – $10.23
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $40.80 $3.88 – $10.23
UPMC Altoona Altoona $50.40 $4.44 – $67.20
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $78.00 $4.16 – $10.23
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $40.20 $4.44 – $8.76
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $33.00 $4.44 – $6.58

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