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Lung Function Test (Spirometry) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$125.40
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.
$209.00
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.
$16.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $170.84 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $16.50 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $16.50 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $19.50 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $22.25 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $23.35 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $23.74 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $25.56 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $27.87 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $59.76 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $64.74 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $65.07 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $66.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $66.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $66.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $66.40 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $74.54 | ↓ -41% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $83.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $85.04 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $90.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $93.47 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $113.89 | ↓ -9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $115.15 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $116.20 | ↓ -7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $125.18 | ↓ -0% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $132.80 | ↑ +6% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $139.61 | ↑ +11% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $141.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Humana | Commercial | $141.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $152.72 | ↑ +22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $153.02 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $156.63 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $161.09 | ↑ +28% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $161.10 | ↑ +28% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $161.10 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $164.09 | ↑ +31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $170.84 | ↑ +36% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Lung Function Test (Spirometry) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $171.60 | $16.50 – $243.10 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $379.20 | $16.50 – $568.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,249.20 | $10.80 – $1,769.70 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $171.60 | $16.50 – $243.10 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $142.20 | $16.50 – $189.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $150.00 | $16.50 – $205.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $346.20 | $11.79 – $490.45 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $199.80 | $9.00 – $266.40 |