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Braf gene at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$1,392.00
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.
$2,320.00
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.
$146.21 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,017.90 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 | $146.21 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $149.54 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $157.50 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $164.66 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $171.86 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $173.35 | ↓ -88% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $175.40 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $180.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $184.17 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $187.57 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $189.43 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $189.43 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $189.43 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $190.96 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $192.94 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $209.44 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $212.34 | ↓ -85% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $215.60 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $226.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $234.08 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $244.01 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $246.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $246.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $271.04 | ↓ -81% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $308.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $318.41 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $369.60 | ↓ -73% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $462.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $480.87 | ↓ -65% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $492.80 | ↓ -65% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $492.80 | ↓ -65% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $505.12 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $542.02 | ↓ -61% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $554.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $554.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $643.95 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $760.06 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,017.90 | ↓ -27% |
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Braf gene at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,392.00 | $150.42 – $523.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,716.00 | $143.18 – $523.60 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,392.00 | $150.79 – $523.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $293.40 | $71.85 – $383.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,392.00 | $150.49 – $523.60 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,013.40 | $157.50 – $1,266.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,656.00 | $83.88 – $419.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $349.20 | $157.50 – $465.60 |