Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$334.20
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.
$557.00
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.
$19.66 with UPMC Health Plan vs $512.44 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 | Commercial | $19.66 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $32.84 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $34.68 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $36.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $36.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $37.89 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $37.90 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $37.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $38.60 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $44.24 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $44.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $52.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $59.65 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $62.61 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $63.64 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $67.54 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $68.54 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $94.33 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $149.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $200.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $200.82 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $217.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $218.34 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $222.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $222.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $222.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $222.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $278.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $301.23 | ↓ -10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $316.42 | ↓ -5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $389.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $423.76 | ↑ +27% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $445.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $473.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $473.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $512.44 | ↑ +53% |
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Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $343.20 | $18.63 – $93.44 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $403.80 | $18.74 – $94.33 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $463.20 | $19.78 – $94.33 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $408.60 | $18.79 – $94.33 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $481.20 | $34.68 – $641.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $585.60 | $12.66 – $878.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $195.60 | $29.71 – $277.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $195.60 | $34.74 – $277.10 |