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Drug test def 8-14 classes at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$440.40
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.
$734.00
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.
$86.77 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $623.90 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $86.77 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $108.23 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $113.15 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $145.52 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $145.91 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $150.68 | ↓ -66% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $153.60 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $156.59 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $156.59 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $164.42 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $164.42 | ↓ -63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $167.68 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $169.10 | ↓ -62% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $169.12 | ↓ -62% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $169.12 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $172.25 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $172.25 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $201.81 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $240.83 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $249.56 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $293.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $322.54 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $339.11 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $403.61 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $466.29 | ↑ +6% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $513.80 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $609.22 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $623.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $623.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $623.90 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Drug test def 8-14 classes at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $441.60 | $85.95 – $662.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $610.80 | $86.77 – $865.30 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $453.00 | $86.77 – $641.75 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $239.40 | $108.23 – $339.15 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $345.00 | $85.08 – $431.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $316.80 | $95.04 – $475.20 |