Cytopathology concentration technique smears & interpretation at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$57.00
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.
$95.00
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.
$9.03 with UPMC Health Plan vs $87.40 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 | $9.03 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $14.15 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $17.60 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $17.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $20.80 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $22.49 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $23.73 | ↓ -58% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $24.91 | ↓ -56% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $25.32 | ↓ -56% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $27.27 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $30.12 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $31.02 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $34.20 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $35.02 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $37.05 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $37.24 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $38.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $38.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $38.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $38.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $38.39 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $39.29 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -29% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $41.16 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $45.18 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $47.46 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $47.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $63.56 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $66.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $76.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $80.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $80.75 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $80.77 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $87.40 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cytopathology concentration technique smears & interpretation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $128.40 | $8.56 – $81.42 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $201.00 | $8.61 – $93.92 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $66.00 | $4.80 – $94.68 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $137.40 | $8.63 – $80.77 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $193.20 | $4.00 – $257.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $100.20 | $8.65 – $150.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $78.60 | $5.24 – $111.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $159.60 | $16.80 – $212.80 |