Red blood cells leukocytes reduced irradiated each unit at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$677.40
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.
$1,129.00
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.
$226.63 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,349.13 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 Medicare | $226.63 | ↓ -67% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $243.87 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $243.87 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $256.06 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $256.06 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $263.36 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $263.38 | ↓ -61% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $263.38 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $268.26 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $268.26 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $288.04 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $383.86 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $451.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $500.21 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $521.60 | ↓ -23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $620.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $669.92 | ↓ -1% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $790.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $799.47 | ↑ +18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $937.07 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $959.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $959.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $959.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,070.72 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,339.84 | ↑ +98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,349.13 | ↑ +99% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | 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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Red blood cells leukocytes reduced irradiated each unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $856.20 | $228.24 – $288.04 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $797.40 | $203.29 – $285.33 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,600.40 | $189.67 – $1,503.18 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $646.80 | $210.56 – $288.04 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $658.80 | $248.70 – $878.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,047.80 | $87.99 – $3,071.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $376.80 | $86.04 – $533.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $376.80 | $125.60 – $929.71 |