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Red blood cells each unit at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$384.00
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.
$640.00
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.
$33.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,499.59 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $33.00 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $34.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $44.49 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $46.83 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $51.13 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $81.70 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $90.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $106.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $122.43 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $127.86 | ↓ -67% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $137.59 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $137.59 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $141.88 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $144.47 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $144.47 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $148.58 | ↓ -61% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $148.60 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $148.60 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $151.35 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $151.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $185.50 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $189.29 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $190.02 | ↓ -51% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $219.95 | ↓ -43% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $220.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $225.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $225.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Commercial | $225.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $226.77 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $303.71 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $380.04 | ↓ -1% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,499.59 | ↑ +811% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Red blood cells each unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $630.00 | $33.00 – $945.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,500.80 | $33.00 – $3,542.80 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $378.60 | $33.00 – $536.35 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $759.60 | $33.00 – $1,012.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,855.20 | $33.00 – $2,628.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $200.40 | $33.00 – $250.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $919.20 | $33.00 – $629.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $759.60 | $33.00 – $1,012.80 |