Cytopath tbs c/v manual at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$38.40
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.
$64.00
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.
$7.87 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $127.12 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $7.87 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $7.87 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $9.29 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $10.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $11.13 | ↓ -71% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $11.31 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $12.19 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $17.02 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $17.55 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $18.66 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $19.10 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $19.64 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $19.65 | ↓ -49% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $19.65 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $20.01 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $23.04 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $24.92 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $24.96 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $25.09 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $25.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $25.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $25.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $25.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $28.30 | ↓ -26% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $32.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $44.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $44.98 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $51.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $54.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $54.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $58.88 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $60.24 | ↑ +57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $85.62 | ↑ +123% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $90.36 | ↑ +135% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $94.92 | ↑ +147% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $127.12 | ↑ +231% |
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Cytopath tbs c/v manual at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $36.60 | $7.15 – $51.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $36.60 | $7.15 – $85.62 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $36.60 | $7.15 – $29.10 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $30.60 | $7.15 – $34.13 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $36.60 | $7.15 – $29.10 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $36.60 | $7.15 – $76.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $36.60 | $7.87 – $18.19 |