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Thyroid (TSH) Test at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$142.20
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.
$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.
$14.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $213.30 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.
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 | $14.00 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $16.60 | ↓ -88% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $16.80 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $17.24 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $17.64 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $18.14 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18.14 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $18.14 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $18.48 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $25.53 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $26.69 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $27.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $32.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $34.42 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $36.73 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $39.55 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $49.04 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $65.67 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $66.12 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $72.17 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $73.47 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $77.51 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $80.58 | ↓ -43% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $82.95 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $90.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $94.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $94.80 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $101.30 | ↓ -29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $103.81 | ↓ -27% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $104.28 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $118.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $142.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $177.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $189.60 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $189.60 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $194.34 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $213.30 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $213.30 | ↑ +50% |
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Thyroid (TSH) Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $400.80 | $15.61 – $505.75 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $15.72 – $181.24 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $218.40 | $16.60 – $134.30 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $204.00 | $14.51 – $289.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $251.40 | $16.60 – $335.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $257.40 | $16.60 – $300.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $85.80 | $16.63 – $121.55 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $126.00 | $16.60 – $168.00 |