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Reptilase test at UPMC Mercy

1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$110.40

Cash price

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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.

$184.00

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.

$6.60 with UPMC Health Plan vs $125.10 with Health Payors Organization — 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $6.60 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $6.90 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.21 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $8.90 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $9.49 ↓ -91%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $9.74 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.85 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $10.11 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $10.23 ↓ -91%
Aetna of PA Medicare $10.34 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $10.64 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.64 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $10.64 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicare $10.84 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $11.71 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $17.58 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $26.56 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $35.56 ↓ -68%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $38.78 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $41.97 ↓ -62%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $42.33 ↓ -62%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $42.45 ↓ -62%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $43.09 ↓ -61%
Cigna New Business ASO $47.26 ↓ -57%
Bravo Medicare $48.65 ↓ -56%
Aetna EBR FI $52.82 ↓ -52%
Cigna Commercial $55.60 ↓ -50%
Aetna EBR ASO $55.60 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $56.21 ↓ -49%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $61.16 ↓ -45%
InterGroup PPO $69.50 ↓ -37%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $83.40 ↓ -24%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $104.25 ↓ -6%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $111.20 ↑ +1%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $111.20 ↑ +1%
National Provider Network PPO $113.98 ↑ +3%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $125.10 ↑ +13%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $125.10 ↑ +13%

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Reptilase test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $86.40 $6.60 – $122.40
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $774.00 $6.00 – $1,096.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $97.20 $6.60 – $137.70
UPMC Muncy Muncy $87.60 $6.60 – $116.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $83.40 $6.60 – $118.15
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $105.60 $6.00 – $118.80
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $87.60 $6.60 – $116.80

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