Histochemical stains add-on at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$147.60
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.
$246.00
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.
$18.62 with UPMC Health Plan vs $101.56 with UPMC Work Partners — 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 | $18.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $19.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $31.47 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $33.12 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $33.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $37.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $39.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $40.56 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $40.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $41.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $41.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $41.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $41.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $42.15 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $44.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $46.87 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $47.65 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $51.31 | ↓ -65% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $52.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $52.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $63.22 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $63.95 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $66.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $72.80 | ↓ -51% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $83.20 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $84.78 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | Commercial | $88.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $88.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $88.93 | ↓ -40% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $95.68 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $101.56 | ↓ -31% |
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Histochemical stains add-on at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $121.20 | $17.64 – $101.04 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $122.40 | $17.75 – $118.09 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $192.60 | $10.31 – $117.49 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $124.20 | $17.79 – $101.56 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $193.20 | $8.59 – $257.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $126.00 | $11.25 – $196.12 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $174.00 | $31.62 – $232.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $126.00 | $11.25 – $178.50 |