Susceptibility enzyme detection per enzyme 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

$51.00

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.

$85.00

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.

$4.45 with UPMC Health Plan vs $57.15 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 $4.45 ↓ -91%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.70 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $4.87 ↓ -90%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4.99 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $5.13 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $5.13 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.13 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicare $5.22 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $5.78 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $5.78 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $6.78 ↓ -87%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $6.83 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $7.79 ↓ -85%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $8.17 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $8.31 ↓ -84%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $8.64 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $8.95 ↓ -82%
Aetna EBR FI $9.36 ↓ -82%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $9.41 ↓ -82%
Cigna Commercial $9.60 ↓ -81%
Aetna EBR ASO $9.60 ↓ -81%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $9.60 ↓ -81%
Cigna New Business ASO $9.60 ↓ -81%
InterGroup PPO $12.00 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $12.72 ↓ -75%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $16.80 ↓ -67%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $19.20 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $20.22 ↓ -60%
Humana Commercial $20.40 ↓ -60%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $20.40 ↓ -60%
Multiplan PPO $22.08 ↓ -57%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $23.30 ↓ -54%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $27.08 ↓ -47%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $40.63 ↓ -20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $42.68 ↓ -16%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $57.15 ↑ +12%

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Susceptibility enzyme detection per enzyme at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $47.40 $3.96 – $12.60
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $68.40 $4.41 – $12.72
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $64.80 $4.70 – $12.72
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $55.80 $4.10 – $12.72
UPMC Altoona Altoona $62.40 $4.70 – $83.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $78.60 $1.71 – $117.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $25.80 $4.70 – $36.55
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $25.80 $4.70 – $36.55

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