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Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$102.60
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.
$171.00
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.
$4.42 with UPMC Health Plan vs $54.40 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 | $4.42 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4.58 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5.00 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $5.00 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5.14 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5.24 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $5.24 | ↓ -95% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $5.47 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.97 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $7.29 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $9.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $9.40 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $9.90 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $10.80 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $15.71 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $21.04 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $21.76 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $25.10 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $25.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $29.57 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $33.62 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $42.07 | ↓ -59% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $44.80 | ↓ -56% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $53.12 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial | $54.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $54.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $54.40 | ↓ -47% |
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Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $39.60 | $3.97 – $59.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $215.40 | $4.70 – $305.15 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $66.60 | $4.11 – $94.35 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $39.60 | $4.70 – $52.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $34.80 | $4.32 – $49.30 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $24.00 | $4.70 – $24.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $47.80 | $4.70 – $53.77 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $39.60 | $4.70 – $52.80 |