Mayo ceruloplasmin at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$100.20
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.
$167.00
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.
$8.95 with UPMC Health Plan vs $142.20 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $8.95 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $10.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $10.74 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $11.00 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $11.02 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $11.28 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $11.50 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $11.60 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $11.60 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $11.60 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $11.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $14.83 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $15.82 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $17.04 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $18.51 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $20.76 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $31.36 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $41.99 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $44.08 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $48.11 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $48.98 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $49.56 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $53.72 | ↓ -46% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $55.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $60.04 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $63.20 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $63.20 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $66.37 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $67.09 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $69.52 | ↓ -31% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $79.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $94.80 | ↓ -5% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $118.50 | ↑ +18% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $126.40 | ↑ +26% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $126.40 | ↑ +26% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $129.56 | ↑ +29% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $142.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $142.20 | ↑ +42% |
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Mayo ceruloplasmin at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $72.60 | $10.05 – $20.96 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $186.00 | $9.98 – $20.96 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $150.60 | $9.27 – $20.96 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $93.00 | $10.00 – $124.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $58.80 | $3.87 – $88.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $54.60 | $10.00 – $77.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $76.80 | $6.98 – $102.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $54.60 | $10.00 – $77.35 |