In situ hybridization per specimen initial single probe stain at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$981.00
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.
$1,635.00
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.
$19.14 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,504.20 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 | $19.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $26.48 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $42.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $56.37 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $57.87 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $57.87 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $65.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $68.39 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $78.02 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $81.90 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $83.25 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $84.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $88.81 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $89.66 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $118.94 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $152.90 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $159.76 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $167.58 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $171.54 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $176.42 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $176.44 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $176.44 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $179.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $588.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $637.65 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $640.92 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $654.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $654.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $654.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $654.00 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $817.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,144.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,308.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,389.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,389.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,504.20 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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In situ hybridization per specimen initial single probe stain at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $300.00 | $18.14 – $179.71 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $102.00 | $18.25 – $185.77 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $463.80 | $13.85 – $181.85 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $240.00 | $18.29 – $179.71 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $275.40 | $26.23 – $367.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $76.20 | $18.33 – $145.17 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $337.20 | $15.12 – $477.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $410.40 | $53.00 – $547.20 |