Culture fungi other (except blood) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$298.20
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$497.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$7.87 with UPMC Health Plan vs $148.12 with Multiplan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $7.87 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.31 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $8.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $8.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $9.08 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $9.08 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $9.08 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.25 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $10.67 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $10.67 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $14.39 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $15.10 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $15.35 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $16.40 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $16.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $26.07 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $34.91 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $37.02 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $52.37 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $55.01 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $57.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $62.79 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $63.11 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $64.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $64.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $64.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $64.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $73.67 | ↓ -75% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $80.50 | ↓ -73% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $112.70 | ↓ -62% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $128.80 | ↓ -57% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $136.85 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Commercial | $136.85 | ↓ -54% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $148.12 | ↓ -50% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Culture fungi other (except blood) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $137.40 | $7.01 – $16.25 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $268.20 | $7.82 – $16.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $520.20 | $8.31 – $16.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $297.00 | $7.26 – $16.40 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $118.80 | $8.31 – $158.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $58.80 | $3.03 – $88.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $46.80 | $8.33 – $66.30 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $60.00 | $5.47 – $80.00 |