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Ihc/icc per specimen each additional single antibody stain at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$166.20
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.
$277.00
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.
$29.03 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $186.15 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 | $29.03 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $50.41 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $54.75 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $56.22 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $58.78 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $67.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $74.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $75.80 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $79.79 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $80.57 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $85.05 | ↓ -49% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $87.10 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $87.60 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $87.64 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $101.18 | ↓ -39% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $101.91 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $107.91 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $109.50 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $135.03 | ↓ -19% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $153.30 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $181.77 | ↑ +9% |
| Humana | Commercial | $186.15 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $186.15 | ↑ +12% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $186.15 | ↑ +12% |
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Ihc/icc per specimen each additional single antibody stain at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $268.80 | $28.76 – $403.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $166.20 | $29.03 – $235.45 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $424.20 | $29.03 – $600.95 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $293.40 | $43.56 – $391.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $272.40 | $56.22 – $385.90 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $157.20 | $28.46 – $101.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $355.20 | $43.56 – $399.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $293.40 | $43.56 – $391.20 |