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Ghs fish cytogen at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$71.40
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.
$119.00
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.
$19.91 with UPMC Health Plan vs $150.31 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $19.91 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $21.16 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $21.42 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $21.42 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $22.49 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $22.49 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $23.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $23.13 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $23.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $23.56 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $23.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $24.61 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $26.98 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $32.31 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $35.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $42.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $48.51 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $56.11 | ↓ -21% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $57.75 | ↓ -19% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $73.50 | ↑ +3% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $75.15 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $87.15 | ↑ +22% |
| Humana | Commercial | $89.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $89.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $89.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $89.69 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $120.12 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $150.31 | ↑ +111% |
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Ghs fish cytogen at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $125.40 | $17.86 – $188.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $89.40 | $15.68 – $126.65 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $235.80 | $18.49 – $334.05 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $354.60 | $16.73 – $450.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $186.00 | $19.43 – $263.50 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $153.00 | $15.03 – $191.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $428.80 | $16.73 – $91.80 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $354.60 | $16.73 – $472.80 |