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Lipoprotein blood quant at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$320.40
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.
$534.00
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.
$31.77 with UPMC Health Plan vs $453.90 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 | $31.77 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $33.79 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $34.19 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $34.19 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $35.90 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $35.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $36.92 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $36.93 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $36.93 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $37.61 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $37.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $39.29 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $50.55 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $82.72 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $143.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $181.56 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $192.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $213.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $229.58 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $246.71 | ↓ -23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $293.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $307.48 | ↓ -4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $373.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $384.76 | ↑ +20% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $443.22 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $453.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $453.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $453.90 | ↑ +42% |
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Lipoprotein blood quant at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $214.80 | $28.50 – $322.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $400.20 | $25.03 – $566.95 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $285.00 | $29.52 – $403.75 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $394.20 | $26.70 – $525.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $280.20 | $31.01 – $396.95 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $172.20 | $23.99 – $215.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $476.80 | $26.70 – $511.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $375.60 | $26.70 – $500.80 |