Platelets leukocytes reduced each unit at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$508.80

Cash price

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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.

$848.00

Gross charge

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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.

$112.22 with UPMC Health Plan vs $919.60 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $112.22 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $123.00 ↓ -76%
Aetna of PA Medicare $125.91 ↓ -75%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $129.49 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Medicare $129.50 ↓ -75%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $129.50 ↓ -75%
Aetna Medicare $131.90 ↓ -74%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $144.00 ↓ -72%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $288.00 ↓ -43%
Aetna EBR FI $312.00 ↓ -39%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $313.60 ↓ -38%
Cigna Commercial $320.00 ↓ -37%
Aetna EBR ASO $320.00 ↓ -37%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $320.00 ↓ -37%
Cigna New Business ASO $320.00 ↓ -37%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $341.54 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $400.00 ↓ -21%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $400.00 ↓ -21%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $440.00 ↓ -14%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $440.00 ↓ -14%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $527.63 ↑ +4%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $560.00 ↑ +10%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $593.44 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $593.44 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $613.04 ↑ +20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $613.04 ↑ +20%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $640.00 ↑ +26%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $680.00 ↑ +34%
Humana Commercial $680.00 ↑ +34%
Multiplan PPO $736.00 ↑ +45%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $919.60 ↑ +81%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Platelets leukocytes reduced each unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $241.20 $99.96 – $131.90
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $576.00 $111.43 – $131.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $710.40 $95.81 – $552.22
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $528.00 $103.53 – $131.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $181.80 $41.51 – $257.55
UPMC Cole Coudersport $135.60 $62.65 – $180.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $181.80 $60.60 – $341.54
UPMC East Monroeville $525.00 $120.23 – $700.00

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