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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step giardia 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

$797.40

Cash price

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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.

$1,329.00

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.

$11.84 with UPMC Work Partners vs $254.15 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 $11.84 ↓ -99%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $12.31 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $12.94 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $12.94 ↓ -98%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $12.94 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $12.94 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $12.94 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $13.18 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $13.18 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $13.54 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $13.77 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $14.77 ↓ -98%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $16.00 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $18.15 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $18.26 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $19.16 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $19.48 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $20.98 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $29.84 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $49.59 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $66.41 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $78.39 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $104.98 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $132.83 ↓ -83%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $194.35 ↓ -76%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $209.30 ↓ -74%
Fidelis Medicare $224.25 ↓ -72%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $224.25 ↓ -72%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $239.20 ↓ -70%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $239.20 ↓ -70%
SelectCare Commercial $239.20 ↓ -70%
Multiplan PPO $239.20 ↓ -70%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $254.15 ↓ -68%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $254.15 ↓ -68%
Humana Commercial $254.15 ↓ -68%

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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step giardia at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $111.60 $9.99 – $167.40
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $192.00 $11.13 – $272.00
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $181.80 $10.34 – $257.55
UPMC Muncy Muncy $199.80 $11.84 – $158.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $76.20 $10.86 – $107.95
UPMC Somerset Somerset $66.60 $11.84 – $83.25
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $241.60 $11.84 – $162.00
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $118.80 $11.84 – $158.40

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