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11-desoxycortisol - sendout at UPMC Passavant-McCandless

9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 7, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$175.20

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.

$292.00

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.

$19.25 with UPMC Health Plan vs $248.20 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 $19.25 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $20.12 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $25.95 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $27.21 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $27.32 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $28.94 ↓ -83%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicaid $29.28 ↓ -83%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicare $29.28 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $29.82 ↓ -83%
Aetna of PA Medicare $30.74 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $30.74 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $31.62 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $31.62 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $31.62 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare $32.21 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $32.21 ↓ -82%
Private Health Care Systems Workers' Comp $33.65 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $35.03 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $47.23 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $82.02 ↓ -53%
Cigna New Business ASO $99.28 ↓ -43%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $109.85 ↓ -37%
Cigna Commercial $116.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $131.09 ↓ -25%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Commercial $134.90 ↓ -23%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $175.57 ↑ +0%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $204.40 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $219.70 ↑ +25%
InterGroup PPO $242.36 ↑ +38%
Humana Commercial $248.20 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) $248.20 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $248.20 ↑ +42%

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11-desoxycortisol - sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $671.40 $17.50 – $951.15
UPMC Somerset Somerset $148.20 $19.25 – $80.25
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $597.60 $17.50 – $672.30
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $493.80 $19.25 – $658.40

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