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Hexa gene at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$1,501.20
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.
$2,502.00
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.
$47.81 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,688.10 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 | $47.81 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $50.85 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $51.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $51.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $54.02 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $54.02 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $55.56 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $55.57 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $55.57 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $56.59 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $56.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $59.13 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $164.81 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $172.30 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $176.69 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $222.20 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $233.90 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $255.34 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $274.83 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $477.27 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $639.20 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $675.24 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $762.81 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $794.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $917.53 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,021.62 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,278.39 | ↓ -15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,390.20 | ↓ -7% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,648.38 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,688.10 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $1,688.10 | ↑ +12% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,688.10 | ↑ +12% |
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Hexa gene at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,191.60 | $50.85 – $1,688.10 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,191.60 | $44.42 – $1,688.10 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,416.00 | $46.66 – $2,006.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,396.80 | $50.85 – $1,571.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,336.80 | $50.85 – $1,782.40 |