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Urinalysis (without microscopy) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$49.20
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.
$82.00
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.
$2.11 with UPMC Health Plan vs $70.84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2.11 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.22 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $2.31 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2.36 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2.43 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2.43 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2.43 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.48 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $3.41 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $3.41 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $4.03 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $4.60 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $4.83 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $4.91 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $5.28 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $6.17 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $7.01 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $9.81 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $13.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $19.71 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $20.71 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $24.08 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $27.72 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $27.73 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $30.03 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $30.18 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $30.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $30.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $30.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $30.80 | ↓ -37% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $38.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $53.90 | ↑ +10% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $61.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $65.45 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $65.45 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $70.84 | ↑ +44% |
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Urinalysis (without microscopy) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $71.40 | $2.09 – $101.15 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $34.80 | $1.88 – $52.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $49.20 | $2.22 – $69.70 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $40.80 | $1.94 – $57.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $46.80 | $2.22 – $35.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $36.60 | $2.22 – $42.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $17.40 | $2.23 – $24.65 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $45.60 | $2.22 – $60.80 |