Tissue culture placenta at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$688.80
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.
$1,148.00
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.
$140.67 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,238.65 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 | Managed Medicare | $140.67 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $148.55 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $154.18 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $157.81 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $162.31 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $162.32 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $162.32 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $165.33 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $207.90 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $207.90 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $224.50 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $245.70 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $275.73 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $280.29 | ↓ -59% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $294.22 | ↓ -57% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $299.07 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $322.09 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $367.92 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $398.58 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $400.62 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $408.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $408.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $408.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $408.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $438.29 | ↓ -36% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $475.00 | ↓ -31% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $511.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $587.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $715.40 | ↑ +4% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $771.23 | ↑ +12% |
| Humana | Commercial | $868.70 | ↑ +26% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $868.70 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $880.49 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $924.90 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $940.24 | ↑ +37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,238.65 | ↑ +80% |
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Tissue culture placenta at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,024.20 | $125.29 – $273.13 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $543.00 | $123.98 – $769.25 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $543.00 | $148.80 – $771.23 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,551.00 | $148.55 – $273.13 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $543.00 | $148.80 – $257.42 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $543.00 | $148.80 – $257.42 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $543.00 | $155.46 – $1,065.24 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $543.00 | $148.55 – $262.69 |