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Cortisol total am 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

$558.60

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.

$931.00

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.

$12.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $164.05 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $12.00 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $13.20 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $14.40 ↓ -97%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $15.60 ↓ -97%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $16.11 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $17.60 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Medicare $17.60 ↓ -97%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $17.60 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $17.60 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $17.60 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $17.80 ↓ -97%
Aetna Medicare $17.93 ↓ -97%
Aetna of PA Medicare $17.93 ↓ -97%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $18.68 ↓ -97%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $18.73 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $18.99 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $20.45 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $28.86 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $31.83 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $52.90 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $70.84 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $83.61 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $111.98 ↓ -80%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $125.45 ↓ -78%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $135.10 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $141.68 ↓ -75%
Fidelis Medicare $144.75 ↓ -74%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $144.75 ↓ -74%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $154.40 ↓ -72%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $154.40 ↓ -72%
SelectCare Commercial $154.40 ↓ -72%
Multiplan PPO $154.40 ↓ -72%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $164.05 ↓ -71%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $164.05 ↓ -71%
Humana Commercial $164.05 ↓ -71%

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Cortisol total am at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $303.00 $13.20 – $429.25
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $159.00 $13.20 – $238.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $165.00 $13.20 – $233.75
UPMC Muncy Muncy $273.00 $13.20 – $364.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $89.40 $13.20 – $126.65
UPMC Somerset Somerset $82.20 $12.00 – $75.00
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $1,184.80 $12.00 – $170.10
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $130.80 $13.20 – $174.40

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