Immunofluorescence per specimen each additional single antibody stain at UPMC Magee
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$72.60
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.
$121.00
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.
$21.60 with UPMC Health Plan vs $459.98 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | Managed Medicaid | $21.60 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $21.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $25.53 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $28.64 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $29.13 | ↓ -60% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $30.57 | ↓ -58% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $31.08 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $41.04 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $44.46 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $44.69 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $45.52 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $45.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $45.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $45.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $45.60 | ↓ -37% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $57.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $57.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $60.96 | ↓ -16% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $79.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $91.20 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $91.44 | ↑ +26% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $91.87 | ↑ +27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $96.05 | ↑ +32% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $96.90 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $96.90 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $101.54 | ↑ +40% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $104.88 | ↑ +44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $128.64 | ↑ +77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $251.59 | ↑ +247% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $459.98 | ↑ +534% |
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Immunofluorescence per specimen each additional single antibody stain at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $72.60 | $21.60 – $103.54 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $96.00 | $21.60 – $106.83 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $194.40 | $14.44 – $120.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $168.00 | $21.60 – $91.87 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $903.60 | $19.64 – $1,204.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $195.60 | $15.76 – $649.15 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $195.60 | $15.76 – $459.98 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $75.60 | $19.64 – $100.80 |