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Vitamin D Test at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$532.20
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.
$887.00
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.
$3.06 with Cigna vs $268.67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $4.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6.30 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $7.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial | $7.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $7.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7.65 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $27.51 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $29.26 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $29.60 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $29.60 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $31.08 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $31.08 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $31.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $31.97 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $31.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $32.56 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $32.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $34.02 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $45.00 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $47.05 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $48.35 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $57.76 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $60.67 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $63.86 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $69.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $100.30 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $134.33 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $160.31 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $214.70 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $268.67 | ↓ -50% |
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Vitamin D Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $205.80 | $3.24 – $69.72 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $223.80 | $24.67 – $335.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $169.20 | $29.26 – $239.70 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $250.80 | $25.56 – $355.30 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $441.60 | $29.26 – $588.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $501.00 | $29.26 – $584.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $149.40 | $29.30 – $211.65 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $271.80 | $29.26 – $362.40 |