Ghs sedimentation rate at UPMC Magee

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

$28.20

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.

$47.00

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.

$3.30 with UPMC Health Plan vs $43.24 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 Medicaid $3.30 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $3.30 ↓ -88%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $3.90 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.00 ↓ -86%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.22 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $4.38 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4.45 ↓ -84%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4.48 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.61 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.61 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.61 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4.67 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $4.70 ↓ -83%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.75 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $5.11 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $6.92 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $8.17 ↓ -71%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $11.01 ↓ -61%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $14.74 ↓ -48%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $16.92 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $18.33 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $18.42 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $18.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $18.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $18.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $18.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $22.11 ↓ -22%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $23.23 ↓ -18%
InterGroup PPO $23.50 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $28.06 ↓ -0%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $31.11 ↑ +10%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $32.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $37.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $39.95 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $39.95 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $43.24 ↑ +53%

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Ghs sedimentation rate at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $30.60 $3.30 – $6.92
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $283.20 $3.00 – $6.92
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $59.40 $3.30 – $6.92
UPMC Altoona Altoona $58.20 $3.00 – $77.60
UPMC East Monroeville $52.80 $3.00 – $70.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $82.20 $3.00 – $6.86
UPMC Kane Kane $40.80 $3.30 – $18.43
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $144.60 $3.30 – $6.92

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