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Mayo fbl culture fungi blood 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

$75.00

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.

$125.00

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.

$12.46 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $110.19 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 $12.46 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $13.71 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $14.95 ↓ -80%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $16.20 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $17.58 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $18.48 ↓ -75%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $19.40 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $19.72 ↓ -74%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $20.22 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $21.23 ↓ -72%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $22.10 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Medicare $22.10 ↓ -71%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $22.10 ↓ -71%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $22.10 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $22.10 ↓ -71%
Aetna Medicare $22.51 ↓ -70%
Aetna of PA Medicare $22.51 ↓ -70%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $23.51 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $24.75 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $41.14 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $55.09 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $65.03 ↓ -13%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $81.25 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $87.09 ↑ +16%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $87.50 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $93.75 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $93.75 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $100.00 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $100.00 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $100.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $100.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $106.25 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $106.25 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $106.25 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $110.19 ↑ +47%

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Mayo fbl culture fungi blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $264.60 $13.71 – $374.85
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $153.00 $13.71 – $229.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $93.00 $13.71 – $131.75
UPMC Northwest Seneca $80.40 $13.71 – $113.90
UPMC Somerset Somerset $114.00 $13.71 – $142.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $471.60 $12.46 – $707.40
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $471.60 $13.71 – $628.80

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