Immunofluorescence per specimen initial single antibody stain at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$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.
$18.40 with UPMC Health Plan vs $179.71 with Aetna — 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 | $18.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $19.82 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $28.05 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $28.05 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $31.50 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $33.15 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $37.82 | ↓ -48% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $39.70 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $40.35 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $41.04 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $42.19 | ↓ -42% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $43.46 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $44.46 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $44.69 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $45.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $45.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $45.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $45.60 | ↓ -37% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $57.00 | ↓ -21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $63.22 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $63.28 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $66.47 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $79.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $89.02 | ↑ +23% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $91.20 | ↑ +26% |
| Humana | Commercial | $96.90 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $96.90 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $104.88 | ↑ +44% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $114.17 | ↑ +57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $152.90 | ↑ +111% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $167.58 | ↑ +131% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $171.54 | ↑ +136% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $176.42 | ↑ +143% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $176.44 | ↑ +143% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $176.44 | ↑ +143% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $179.71 | ↑ +148% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Immunofluorescence per specimen initial single antibody stain at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $316.20 | $17.44 – $179.71 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $96.00 | $17.55 – $179.71 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $316.20 | $18.36 – $179.71 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $168.00 | $17.59 – $179.71 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $415.80 | $15.30 – $554.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $664.80 | $20.04 – $941.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $181.20 | $26.77 – $241.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $664.80 | $20.04 – $180.36 |