Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$75.00
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.
$125.00
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.
$4.45 with UPMC Health Plan vs $75.44 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 | $4.45 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.70 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $4.88 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5.14 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5.14 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5.24 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $6.97 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.97 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $8.24 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $9.04 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $9.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.87 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $10.03 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $10.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $14.38 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $16.52 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $19.25 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $28.88 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $29.52 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $30.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $31.98 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $32.14 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $32.80 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $32.80 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $32.80 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $32.80 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $40.63 | ↓ -46% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $41.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $57.40 | ↓ -23% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $65.60 | ↓ -13% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $69.70 | ↓ -7% |
| Humana | Commercial | $69.70 | ↓ -7% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $75.44 | ↑ +1% |
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Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $39.60 | $3.97 – $8.96 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $102.60 | $4.42 – $9.04 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $215.40 | $4.70 – $9.87 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $66.60 | $4.11 – $9.90 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $40.80 | $4.70 – $54.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $33.00 | $1.72 – $49.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $24.00 | $4.71 – $34.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $36.60 | $3.09 – $48.80 |