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Fetal non stress test 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

$897.00

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.

$1,495.00

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.

$5.66 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,270.75 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $5.66 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $19.25 ↓ -98%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $22.75 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $25.95 ↓ -97%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $26.39 ↓ -97%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $27.24 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $27.69 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $29.82 ↓ -97%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $106.48 ↓ -88%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $123.81 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $131.35 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $159.87 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $207.13 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Medicare $207.13 ↓ -77%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $207.13 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $207.13 ↓ -77%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $207.13 ↓ -77%
Aetna Medicare $210.97 ↓ -76%
Aetna of PA Medicare $210.97 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $325.61 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $436.04 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $612.17 ↓ -32%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $819.85 ↓ -9%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $872.07 ↓ -3%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $971.75 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,046.50 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $1,121.25 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $1,121.25 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $1,196.00 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,196.00 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $1,196.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $1,196.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $1,270.75 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $1,270.75 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $1,270.75 ↑ +42%

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Fetal non stress test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $366.60 $19.25 – $549.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $266.40 $19.25 – $377.40
UPMC Somerset Somerset $752.40 $5.43 – $940.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $451.20 $6.04 – $507.60
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $373.20 $6.04 – $497.60

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