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Hla typing a b or c 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

$1,663.20

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.

$2,772.00

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.

$57.32 with UPMC Work Partners vs $2,356.20 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 $57.32 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $62.64 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare $62.64 ↓ -96%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $62.64 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $62.64 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $62.64 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare $63.80 ↓ -96%
Aetna of PA Medicare $63.80 ↓ -96%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $66.65 ↓ -96%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $78.50 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $86.35 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $94.20 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $97.86 ↓ -94%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $102.05 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $113.13 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $116.42 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $122.20 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $124.22 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $133.78 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $188.05 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $251.83 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $297.23 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $398.06 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $503.65 ↓ -70%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1,801.80 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,940.40 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $2,079.00 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $2,079.00 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $2,217.60 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $2,217.60 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $2,217.60 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $2,217.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $2,356.20 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $2,356.20 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $2,356.20 ↑ +42%

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Hla typing a b or c at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $874.80 $53.90 – $752.25
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $424.20 $48.35 – $636.30
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $562.20 $50.08 – $796.45
UPMC Northwest Seneca $669.60 $52.60 – $948.60
UPMC Somerset Somerset $322.80 $57.32 – $403.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $967.20 $57.32 – $1,088.10
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $799.20 $57.32 – $1,065.60

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