Glucose monitoring continual min 72hr pt at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

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

$198.00

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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.

$330.00

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.

$33.72 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $303.60 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $33.72 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $46.35 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $46.35 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $53.00 ↓ -73%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $54.78 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $58.09 ↓ -71%
Aetna of PA Medicare $59.46 ↓ -70%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $61.15 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare Medicare $61.16 ↓ -69%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $61.16 ↓ -69%
Aetna Medicare $62.29 ↓ -69%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $62.49 ↓ -68%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $65.60 ↓ -67%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $66.68 ↓ -66%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $67.30 ↓ -66%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $71.81 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $102.91 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $113.11 ↓ -43%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $115.50 ↓ -42%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $118.80 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $128.70 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $129.36 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $132.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $132.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $132.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $132.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $137.82 ↓ -30%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $143.55 ↓ -28%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $151.48 ↓ -23%
InterGroup PPO $165.00 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $206.73 ↑ +4%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $231.00 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $264.00 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $280.50 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $280.50 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $303.60 ↑ +53%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Glucose monitoring continual min 72hr pt at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $255.60 $33.72 – $90.09
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $90.60 $20.69 – $128.35
UPMC Cole Coudersport $178.20 $44.25 – $237.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $90.60 $30.20 – $128.35
UPMC Hamot Erie $183.00 $33.40 – $131.90
UPMC Hanover Hanover $90.60 $53.52 – $90.78
UPMC Lititz Lititz $90.60 $53.52 – $91.28
UPMC Memorial York $90.60 $27.22 – $91.14

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