Lithium therapeutic drug level at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$39.60
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.
$66.00
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.
$6.19 with UPMC Health Plan vs $60.72 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 | Managed Medicare | $6.19 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $6.54 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $6.78 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $6.94 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $7.14 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $7.14 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $7.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $7.27 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $8.35 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $8.80 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $8.80 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $10.40 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $11.86 | ↓ -70% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $12.45 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $12.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $12.89 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $13.63 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $20.49 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $23.76 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $25.74 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $25.87 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $26.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $26.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $26.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $26.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $27.44 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $28.67 | ↓ -28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $33.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $41.17 | ↑ +4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $43.24 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $46.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $52.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $56.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $56.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $57.91 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $60.72 | ↑ +53% |
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Lithium therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $168.00 | $5.51 – $12.77 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $168.60 | $6.14 – $12.89 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $349.80 | $6.54 – $12.89 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $128.40 | $5.71 – $12.89 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $85.20 | $6.54 – $113.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $36.60 | $2.38 – $54.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $46.80 | $6.54 – $66.30 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $76.80 | $4.30 – $102.40 |