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Venous sampling s&i at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$3,174.00
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.
$5,290.00
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.
$492.72 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,669.06 with Aetna — 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 | Commercial | $492.72 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $567.83 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,254.21 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,278.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1,322.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,475.91 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,610.81 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,639.90 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,712.58 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,785.90 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,798.60 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,010.20 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,116.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,116.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,327.60 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,412.13 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,645.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,909.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $3,174.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,230.48 | ↑ +2% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,967.50 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $4,232.00 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $4,232.00 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4,296.12 | ↑ +35% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $4,337.80 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $4,761.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $4,761.00 | ↑ +50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $5,288.72 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,411.37 | ↑ +70% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,565.99 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,669.06 | ↑ +79% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Venous sampling s&i at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,362.40 | $495.62 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,825.00 | $573.23 – $9,668.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,755.80 | $496.83 – $5,565.47 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $9,796.20 | $562.08 – $12,245.25 |