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Hla i & ii typing hr 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

$4,179.00

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.

$6,965.00

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.

$341.53 with UPMC Work Partners vs $3,475.65 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 $341.53 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $373.22 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare $373.22 ↓ -91%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $373.22 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $373.22 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $373.22 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $377.15 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $380.13 ↓ -91%
Aetna of PA Medicare $380.13 ↓ -91%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $397.13 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $414.87 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $452.58 ↓ -89%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $490.30 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $559.31 ↓ -87%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $587.11 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $596.80 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $642.74 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $642.91 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $1,068.63 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $1,431.05 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $1,689.07 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $2,262.05 ↓ -46%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,278.45 ↓ -45%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $2,657.85 ↓ -36%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $2,862.10 ↓ -32%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2,862.30 ↓ -32%
Fidelis Medicare $3,066.75 ↓ -27%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $3,066.75 ↓ -27%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $3,271.20 ↓ -22%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $3,271.20 ↓ -22%
SelectCare Commercial $3,271.20 ↓ -22%
Multiplan PPO $3,271.20 ↓ -22%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $3,475.65 ↓ -17%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $3,475.65 ↓ -17%
Humana Commercial $3,475.65 ↓ -17%

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Hla i & ii typing hr at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,786.40 $321.14 – $3,475.65
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $2,453.40 $288.07 – $3,680.10
UPMC Northwest Seneca $2,453.40 $313.40 – $3,475.65
UPMC Somerset Somerset $749.40 $341.53 – $936.75
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $2,407.80 $341.53 – $3,210.40

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