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Hla typing a b or c at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$874.80
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.
$1,458.00
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.
$53.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $752.25 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 | Managed Medicare | $53.90 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $57.32 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $58.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $58.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $60.90 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $60.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $62.63 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $62.64 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $62.64 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $63.80 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $63.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $66.65 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $86.35 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $90.28 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $92.75 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $113.13 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $116.42 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $122.55 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $133.78 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $196.47 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $263.12 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $300.90 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $314.01 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $354.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $408.87 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $420.55 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $526.25 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $619.50 | ↓ -29% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $734.55 | ↓ -16% |
| Humana | Commercial | $752.25 | ↓ -14% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $752.25 | ↓ -14% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $752.25 | ↓ -14% |
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Hla typing a b or c at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $424.20 | $48.35 – $636.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,663.20 | $57.32 – $2,356.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $562.20 | $50.08 – $796.45 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $669.60 | $52.60 – $948.60 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $322.80 | $57.32 – $403.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $967.20 | $57.32 – $1,088.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $799.20 | $57.32 – $1,065.60 |