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Flow cytometry interp 16 or more at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$865.80
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.
$1,443.00
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.
$61.45 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,156.85 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $61.45 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $97.55 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $101.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $131.51 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $138.44 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $151.13 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $202.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $208.01 | ↓ -76% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $235.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $340.25 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $361.23 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $462.74 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $483.78 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $544.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $577.34 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $628.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $680.50 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $773.22 | ↓ -11% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $952.70 | ↑ +10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $967.57 | ↑ +12% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,129.63 | ↑ +30% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,156.85 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $1,156.85 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,156.85 | ↑ +34% |
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Flow cytometry interp 16 or more at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $964.80 | $61.09 – $1,447.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,040.40 | $64.84 – $1,473.90 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $838.80 | $61.60 – $1,188.30 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $374.40 | $93.60 – $499.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $699.60 | $61.48 – $991.10 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $208.80 | $97.55 – $261.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $452.80 | $88.68 – $509.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $374.40 | $97.55 – $499.20 |