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Gardner vag dna quant 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

$483.00

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.

$805.00

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.

$30.56 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $684.25 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.

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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 $30.56 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $41.27 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $45.10 ↓ -91%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $45.10 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $45.10 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $45.10 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare $45.10 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $45.94 ↓ -90%
Aetna of PA Medicare $45.94 ↓ -90%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $47.99 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $90.19 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $111.86 ↓ -77%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $144.90 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $185.93 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $248.99 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $293.88 ↓ -39%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $393.57 ↓ -19%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $442.75 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $497.97 ↑ +3%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $523.25 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $563.50 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $603.75 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $603.75 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $644.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $644.00 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $644.00 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $644.00 ↑ +33%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $684.25 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $684.25 ↑ +42%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $684.25 ↑ +42%

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Gardner vag dna quant at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $505.20 $34.81 – $757.80
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $410.40 $38.81 – $581.40
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $378.00 $36.06 – $535.50
UPMC Muncy Muncy $290.40 $32.60 – $387.20
UPMC Somerset Somerset $232.80 $29.29 – $291.00
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $351.20 $32.60 – $395.10
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $290.40 $32.60 – $387.20

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