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Creatinine clearance urine 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

$155.40

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.

$259.00

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.

$9.35 with UPMC Work Partners vs $220.15 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 $9.35 ↓ -94%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.00 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $10.22 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $10.22 ↓ -93%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $10.22 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.22 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $10.22 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $10.41 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $10.41 ↓ -93%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $10.87 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $11.00 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $12.00 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $12.94 ↓ -92%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $13.00 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $14.83 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $15.57 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $15.82 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $17.04 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $18.41 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $30.60 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $40.98 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $48.36 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $64.77 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $81.95 ↓ -47%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $168.35 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $181.30 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $194.25 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $194.25 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $207.20 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $207.20 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $207.20 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $207.20 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $220.15 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $220.15 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $220.15 ↑ +42%

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Creatinine clearance urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $236.40 $8.79 – $334.90
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $205.80 $7.89 – $308.70
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $114.60 $8.17 – $162.35
UPMC Muncy Muncy $146.40 $9.35 – $195.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $64.80 $8.58 – $91.80
UPMC Somerset Somerset $55.20 $9.35 – $60.00
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $176.80 $9.35 – $198.90
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $146.40 $9.35 – $195.20

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