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Mayo gamma-globin full gene sequencing at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$13,573.80
Cash price 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.
$22,623.00
Gross charge 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.
$4.86 with Aetna vs $341.42 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $4.86 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $6.75 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $12.66 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $13.50 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $14.85 | ↓ -100% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $17.55 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $18.90 | ↓ -100% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $20.25 | ↓ -100% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $20.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $21.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $21.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $21.60 | ↓ -100% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $21.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $22.95 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial | $22.95 | ↓ -100% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $22.95 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $76.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $127.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $170.71 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $201.49 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $269.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $341.42 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Mayo gamma-globin full gene sequencing at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $10,180.80 | $26.75 – $90.95 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $8,992.20 | $65.25 – $234.90 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $8,992.20 | $70.50 – $239.70 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $7,746.60 | $28.50 – $171.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $8,992.20 | $65.25 – $221.85 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $9,836.80 | $39.78 – $198.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $8,576.40 | $62.64 – $208.80 |