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Warde cadmium blood at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$99.00
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.
$165.00
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.
$20.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $170.99 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $20.90 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $21.85 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $21.97 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $23.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $23.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $23.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $24.82 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $24.82 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $25.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $25.53 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $25.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $26.00 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $26.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $27.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $28.18 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $29.66 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $31.25 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $32.38 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $36.76 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $56.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $63.84 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $66.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $76.23 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $85.50 | ↓ -14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $102.03 | ↑ +3% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $115.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $136.65 | ↑ +38% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $136.95 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $140.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $140.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $140.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $170.99 | ↑ +73% |
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Warde cadmium blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $111.60 | $19.71 – $167.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $192.00 | $19.00 – $148.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $212.40 | $20.41 – $300.90 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $247.20 | $20.90 – $329.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $124.20 | $20.90 – $175.95 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $119.40 | $20.90 – $149.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $298.40 | $19.00 – $335.70 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $247.20 | $20.90 – $329.60 |