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Lactic acid at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$159.00
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.
$265.00
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.
$8.80 with UPMC Health Plan vs $225.25 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $8.80 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $9.20 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $10.75 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $11.43 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $11.57 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $11.57 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $11.86 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $12.15 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $12.15 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $12.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $12.49 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $12.50 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $12.50 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $12.73 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $12.73 | ↓ -92% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $13.29 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $13.63 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $25.11 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $29.29 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $50.87 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $68.13 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $81.30 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $90.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $106.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $108.89 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $122.43 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $136.25 | ↓ -14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $185.50 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $219.95 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $225.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $225.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $225.25 | ↑ +42% |
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Lactic acid at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $129.60 | $8.80 – $194.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $505.80 | $8.00 – $716.55 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $88.20 | $8.80 – $124.95 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $121.80 | $8.80 – $162.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $91.20 | $8.80 – $129.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $58.80 | $8.00 – $73.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $147.20 | $8.00 – $165.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $121.80 | $8.80 – $162.40 |