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Blood split unit at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$664.20
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.
$1,107.00
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.
$50.67 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $849.19 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $50.67 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $69.44 | ↓ -90% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $80.74 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $84.22 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $86.58 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $101.78 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $112.78 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $133.11 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $146.01 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $146.01 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $146.01 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $146.01 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $146.01 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $148.71 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $148.71 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $178.26 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $225.55 | ↓ -66% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $264.55 | ↓ -60% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $312.65 | ↓ -53% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $336.70 | ↓ -49% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $360.75 | ↓ -46% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $360.75 | ↓ -46% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $384.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $384.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $384.80 | ↓ -42% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $384.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $408.85 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $408.85 | ↓ -38% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $408.85 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $849.19 | ↑ +28% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Blood split unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $320.40 | $50.19 – $480.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $349.80 | $50.67 – $439.45 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $356.40 | $50.67 – $504.90 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $247.80 | $61.95 – $330.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $300.60 | $69.44 – $425.85 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $192.60 | $49.68 – $240.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $247.80 | $69.44 – $371.70 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $247.80 | $69.44 – $330.40 |