Warde thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins 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

$285.60

Cash price

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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.

$476.00

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.

$22.00 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $437.92 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.

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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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $22.00 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $22.00 ↓ -92%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $26.00 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $29.66 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $31.13 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $31.65 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $34.08 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $47.60 ↓ -83%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $50.27 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $52.17 ↓ -82%
Aetna of PA Medicare $53.40 ↓ -81%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $54.92 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare $54.93 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $54.93 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare $55.95 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $74.64 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $92.31 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $146.72 ↓ -49%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $171.36 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $185.64 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $186.59 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $190.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $190.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $190.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $190.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $196.50 ↓ -31%
InterGroup PPO $238.00 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $256.42 ↓ -10%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $294.76 ↑ +3%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $309.62 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $333.20 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $380.80 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $404.60 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $404.60 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $414.65 ↑ +45%
Multiplan PPO $437.92 ↑ +53%

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Warde thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $388.20 $22.00 – $91.43
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $846.00 $22.00 – $92.31
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $925.20 $22.00 – $92.31
UPMC Altoona Altoona $500.40 $20.00 – $667.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $201.60 $18.35 – $302.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $183.60 $20.00 – $146.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $233.40 $21.00 – $311.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $183.60 $20.00 – $256.42

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