Platelets irradiated ea unit at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$651.00
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.
$1,085.00
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.
$120.30 with UPMC Health Plan vs $870.40 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 | $120.30 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $129.45 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $129.45 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $135.92 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $135.92 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $139.79 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $139.81 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $139.81 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $142.40 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $142.40 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $262.97 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $348.16 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $399.36 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $399.36 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $399.36 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $399.36 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $409.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $473.09 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $512.00 | ↓ -21% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $563.20 | ↓ -13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $716.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $798.72 | ↑ +23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $849.92 | ↑ +31% |
| Humana | Commercial | $870.40 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $870.40 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $870.40 | ↑ +34% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $575.40 | $121.15 – $142.40 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $320.40 | $107.91 – $142.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $802.80 | $105.26 – $292.99 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $595.80 | $111.77 – $142.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $199.80 | $45.62 – $283.05 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $199.80 | $66.60 – $283.05 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $591.60 | $129.80 – $788.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $225.60 | $141.24 – $161.35 |