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Ghs HIV antibody 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

$643.80

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.

$1,073.00

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.

$13.54 with UPMC Work Partners vs $233.75 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $13.54 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $14.81 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $14.81 ↓ -98%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $14.81 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $14.81 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $14.81 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $15.08 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $15.08 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $15.75 ↓ -98%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $18.70 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.57 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $22.44 ↓ -97%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $24.31 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $27.73 ↓ -96%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $29.11 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $29.59 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $31.87 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $34.68 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $38.79 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $64.47 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $86.34 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $101.90 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $136.47 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $172.67 ↓ -73%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $178.75 ↓ -72%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $192.50 ↓ -70%
Fidelis Medicare $206.25 ↓ -68%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $206.25 ↓ -68%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $220.00 ↓ -66%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $220.00 ↓ -66%
SelectCare Commercial $220.00 ↓ -66%
Multiplan PPO $220.00 ↓ -66%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $233.75 ↓ -64%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $233.75 ↓ -64%
Humana Commercial $233.75 ↓ -64%

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Ghs HIV antibody at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $103.20 $12.74 – $146.20
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $93.00 $11.43 – $139.50
UPMC Muncy Muncy $200.40 $13.54 – $267.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $255.60 $12.43 – $362.10
UPMC Somerset Somerset $57.60 $13.54 – $72.00
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $200.40 $13.54 – $267.20

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