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Alkaline phosphatase at UPMC Presbyterian

200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$259.20

Cash price

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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.

$432.00

Gross charge

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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.

$5.12 with UPMC Work Partners vs $367.20 with Humana — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.12 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $5.59 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.59 ↓ -98%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $5.59 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $5.59 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5.59 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $5.70 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $5.70 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5.94 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $5.95 ↓ -98%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $6.37 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.01 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $7.64 ↓ -97%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $8.28 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $9.45 ↓ -96%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.92 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $10.08 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $10.10 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $10.86 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $16.78 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $22.47 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $26.52 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $35.52 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $44.94 ↓ -83%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $280.80 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $302.40 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $324.00 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $324.00 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $345.60 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $345.60 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $345.60 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $345.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $367.20 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $367.20 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $367.20 ↑ +42%

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Alkaline phosphatase at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $154.80 $4.81 – $219.30
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $43.80 $4.32 – $65.70
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $86.40 $4.47 – $122.40
UPMC Muncy Muncy $130.80 $5.12 – $174.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $34.80 $4.70 – $49.30
UPMC Somerset Somerset $25.80 $5.12 – $26.25
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $158.40 $5.12 – $154.80
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $114.00 $5.12 – $152.00

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