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Ghs somatosensory testing lower extremit 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

$753.00

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.

$1,255.00

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.

$38.95 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,066.75 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 $38.95 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $64.27 ↓ -91%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $75.96 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $86.65 ↓ -88%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $88.11 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $90.96 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $92.46 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $99.58 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $147.55 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $195.35 ↓ -74%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $227.15 ↓ -70%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $320.63 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Medicare $320.63 ↓ -57%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $320.63 ↓ -57%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $320.63 ↓ -57%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $320.63 ↓ -57%
Aetna Medicare $326.57 ↓ -57%
Aetna of PA Medicare $326.57 ↓ -57%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $365.76 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $489.79 ↓ -35%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $687.64 ↓ -9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $745.98 ↓ -1%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $815.75 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $878.50 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $920.92 ↑ +22%
Fidelis Medicare $941.25 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $941.25 ↑ +25%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $979.59 ↑ +30%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $1,004.00 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,004.00 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $1,004.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $1,004.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $1,066.75 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $1,066.75 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $1,066.75 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $978.60 $64.27 – $1,467.90
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,864.80 $64.27 – $2,641.80
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $1,813.80 $64.27 – $2,569.55
UPMC Northwest Seneca $490.20 $64.27 – $694.45
UPMC Somerset Somerset $720.60 $37.33 – $900.75

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