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Warde virus isolation tissue culture innoculation presumptive id herpes simplex at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$216.60
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.
$361.00
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.
$24.23 with UPMC Health Plan vs $306.85 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 | $24.23 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $25.77 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $26.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $26.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $27.37 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $27.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $28.15 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $28.16 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $28.16 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $28.68 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $28.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $29.96 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $37.17 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $39.62 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $41.42 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $50.85 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $53.42 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $56.23 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $61.39 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $88.31 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $118.27 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $122.74 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $141.14 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $144.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $166.78 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $189.03 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $236.55 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $252.70 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $299.63 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $306.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $306.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $306.85 | ↑ +42% |
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Warde virus isolation tissue culture innoculation presumptive id herpes simplex at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $292.80 | $21.73 – $439.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,827.60 | $25.77 – $2,589.10 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $219.60 | $22.51 – $311.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $739.80 | $25.77 – $986.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $129.60 | $23.64 – $183.60 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $145.20 | $25.77 – $181.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $894.40 | $25.77 – $1,006.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $739.80 | $25.77 – $986.40 |