Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$46.80
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.
$78.00
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.
$4.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $67.16 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 | $4.50 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.76 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $4.93 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5.05 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5.19 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5.19 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5.19 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5.29 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $7.15 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $7.15 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $8.45 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $9.34 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $9.64 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10.09 | ↓ -78% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $10.12 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $10.29 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $11.08 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $14.85 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $19.89 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $26.28 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $28.47 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $28.62 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $29.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $29.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $29.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $29.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $29.84 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $31.35 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $34.66 | ↓ -26% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $36.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $41.98 | ↓ -10% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $51.10 | ↑ +9% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $58.40 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $62.05 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $62.05 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $67.16 | ↑ +44% |
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Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $40.20 | $4.01 – $9.26 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $102.60 | $4.47 – $9.34 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $215.40 | $4.76 – $10.12 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $88.20 | $4.15 – $10.15 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $58.20 | $4.76 – $77.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $33.00 | $1.74 – $49.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $24.60 | $4.76 – $34.85 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $37.80 | $3.13 – $50.40 |