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Pretreat rbc w chem/drugs reference at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$110.40
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.
$184.00
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.
$36.60 with UPMC Health Plan vs $226.51 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $36.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $48.70 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $52.63 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $56.63 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $56.63 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $59.16 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $59.46 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $59.46 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $61.15 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $61.16 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $61.16 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $62.29 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $62.29 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $69.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $80.39 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $84.56 | ↓ -23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $95.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $113.25 | ↑ +3% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $121.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $135.16 | ↑ +22% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $144.42 | ↑ +31% |
| Humana | Commercial | $147.90 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $147.90 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $147.90 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $181.01 | ↑ +64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $226.51 | ↑ +105% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Pretreat rbc w chem/drugs reference at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $183.60 | $36.38 – $275.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $552.00 | $24.86 – $782.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $225.60 | $36.69 – $319.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $243.60 | $26.52 – $365.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $298.80 | $36.62 – $423.30 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $48.00 | $23.83 – $61.15 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $295.20 | $26.52 – $332.10 |