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Hla i typing low res one locus ea 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

$2,473.20

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.

$4,122.00

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.

$121.54 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $2,368.10 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $121.54 ↓ -95%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $125.95 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $133.69 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $137.62 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $137.62 ↓ -94%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $137.62 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $137.62 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $137.62 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $140.17 ↓ -94%
Aetna of PA Medicare $140.17 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $145.85 ↓ -94%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $146.45 ↓ -94%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $158.00 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $180.24 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $189.20 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $192.32 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $207.13 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $257.16 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $427.44 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $572.40 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $675.61 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $904.79 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,144.80 ↓ -54%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,306.36 ↓ -47%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1,810.90 ↓ -27%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,950.20 ↓ -21%
Fidelis Medicare $2,089.50 ↓ -16%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $2,089.50 ↓ -16%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $2,228.80 ↓ -10%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $2,228.80 ↓ -10%
SelectCare Commercial $2,228.80 ↓ -10%
Multiplan PPO $2,228.80 ↓ -10%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $2,368.10 ↓ -4%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $2,368.10 ↓ -4%
Humana Commercial $2,368.10 ↓ -4%

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Hla i typing low res one locus ea at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,671.60 $118.42 – $2,368.10
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1,671.60 $106.23 – $2,507.40
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $1,671.60 $110.02 – $2,368.10

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