Herpes simplex virus isolation at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$269.40
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.
$449.00
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.
$20.44 with UPMC Health Plan vs $413.08 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 | $20.44 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $31.69 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $33.46 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $34.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $35.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $36.57 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $36.57 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $36.57 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $37.25 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $41.63 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $41.63 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $49.20 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $56.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $58.92 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $59.89 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $64.50 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $70.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $91.74 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $145.83 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $161.64 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $175.11 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $176.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $179.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $179.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $179.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $179.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $195.31 | ↓ -28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $224.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $292.96 | ↑ +9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $307.73 | ↑ +14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $314.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $359.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $381.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $381.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $412.12 | ↑ +53% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $413.08 | ↑ +53% |
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Herpes simplex virus isolation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $186.60 | $19.37 – $90.88 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $356.40 | $19.49 – $91.74 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $338.40 | $20.56 – $91.74 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $345.60 | $19.54 – $91.74 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $447.60 | $33.46 – $596.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $239.40 | $12.22 – $359.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $189.00 | $28.98 – $242.25 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $312.00 | $22.01 – $416.00 |