Red blood cells leukocytes reduced each unit at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$967.20
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.
$1,612.00
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.
$127.46 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,790.45 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 | CHIP | $127.46 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $162.40 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $178.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $182.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $187.38 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $187.40 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $187.40 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $189.29 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $190.87 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $196.90 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $290.16 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $398.57 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $580.32 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $628.68 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $631.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $633.55 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $644.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $644.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $644.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $644.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $806.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $848.50 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $886.60 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $886.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,128.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,272.74 | ↑ +32% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,289.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,336.93 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,370.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,370.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,483.04 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,790.45 | ↑ +85% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Red blood cells leukocytes reduced each unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $961.20 | $100.64 – $394.81 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,432.80 | $161.25 – $398.57 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $818.40 | $138.50 – $398.57 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $893.40 | $149.82 – $398.57 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $709.80 | $127.46 – $946.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $916.20 | $62.61 – $1,374.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $269.40 | $61.51 – $381.65 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $269.40 | $89.80 – $381.65 |