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Carcinoembryonic ag (cea) at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$386.40
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.
$644.00
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.
$17.62 with UPMC Health Plan vs $515.95 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.
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 | $17.62 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $18.70 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $18.73 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $18.96 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $18.96 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $19.55 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $19.91 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $19.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $20.47 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $20.48 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $20.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $20.86 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $20.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $21.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $25.21 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $26.54 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $28.97 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $31.56 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $36.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $64.16 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $85.93 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $102.55 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $137.35 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $171.87 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $206.38 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $242.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $280.43 | ↓ -27% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $424.90 | ↑ +10% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $503.81 | ↑ +30% |
| Humana | Commercial | $515.95 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $515.95 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $515.95 | ↑ +34% |
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Carcinoembryonic ag (cea) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $194.40 | $15.81 – $291.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $532.20 | $17.00 – $753.95 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $144.60 | $16.37 – $204.85 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $411.00 | $18.70 – $548.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $96.60 | $17.19 – $136.85 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $96.60 | $17.00 – $62.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $496.80 | $17.00 – $453.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $334.20 | $18.70 – $444.00 |