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Infectious agent nucleic acid multiplex amplified probe gi pathogen 6-11 targets at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$742.20
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.
$1,237.00
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.
$196.33 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,310.29 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $196.33 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $219.23 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $259.92 | ↓ -65% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $262.99 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $269.88 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $276.14 | ↓ -63% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $284.03 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $284.03 | ↓ -62% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $284.03 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $289.29 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $296.50 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $345.12 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $376.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $383.47 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $397.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $420.58 | ↓ -43% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $432.95 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $468.64 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $470.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $494.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $494.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $544.28 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $618.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $627.62 | ↓ -15% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $680.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $742.20 | ↑ +0% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $846.73 | ↑ +14% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $927.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $989.60 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $989.60 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $1,014.34 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $1,113.30 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,113.30 | ↑ +50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,310.29 | ↑ +77% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid multiplex amplified probe gi pathogen 6-11 targets at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $848.40 | $198.20 – $1,201.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,000.80 | $192.50 – $1,417.80 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $880.20 | $198.20 – $1,246.95 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,008.00 | $238.51 – $1,428.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $553.20 | $184.48 – $691.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $968.40 | $205.34 – $1,291.20 |