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Cholesterol body fluid at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$9,563.40
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.
$15,939.00
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.
$0.82 with UPMC Health Plan vs $17.85 with InterGroup — 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 | Commercial | $0.82 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $2.66 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $3.78 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $4.43 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $5.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $7.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $9.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $10.50 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $11.55 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $11.86 | ↓ -100% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $13.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $14.70 | ↓ -100% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $15.75 | ↓ -100% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $15.75 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $16.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $16.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $16.80 | ↓ -100% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $16.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $17.85 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial | $17.85 | ↓ -100% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $17.85 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Cholesterol body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $9,563.40 | $0.78 – $14.45 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $6,088.80 | $0.77 – $213.30 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $998.40 | $0.78 – $17.85 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $514.80 | $128.70 – $772.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $6,841.20 | $0.78 – $38.25 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $49.80 | $1.93 – $31.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $622.40 | $64.62 – $323.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $9,473.40 | $5.13 – $17.10 |