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Warde pancreatic elastase fecal quantitative at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$145.80
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.
$243.00
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.
$9.74 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $218.70 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $9.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $14.71 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $19.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $19.70 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $20.22 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $21.14 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $22.70 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $22.97 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $23.25 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $23.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $24.12 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $24.81 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $24.81 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $24.81 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $25.27 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $27.26 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $29.08 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $31.14 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $31.32 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $62.79 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $67.80 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $73.99 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $75.33 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $82.62 | ↓ -43% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $85.05 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $92.34 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $97.16 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $97.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $97.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $106.92 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $121.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $145.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $182.25 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $194.40 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $194.40 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $199.26 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $218.70 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $218.70 | ↑ +50% |
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Warde pancreatic elastase fecal quantitative at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,418.40 | $9.83 – $2,009.40 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $456.60 | $20.22 – $608.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $99.00 | $20.22 – $140.25 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $58.80 | $9.64 – $73.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $552.00 | $18.38 – $621.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $456.60 | $20.22 – $608.80 |