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Semen analysis w/count 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

$64.20

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.

$107.00

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.

$6.30 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $90.95 with InterGroup — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $6.30 ↓ -90%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.51 ↓ -87%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $9.30 ↓ -86%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $9.30 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $9.30 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.30 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.30 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $9.47 ↓ -85%
Aetna of PA Medicare $9.47 ↓ -85%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $9.90 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $15.56 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $16.78 ↓ -74%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $19.26 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $27.88 ↓ -57%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $37.34 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $44.07 ↓ -31%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $58.85 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $59.03 ↓ -8%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $69.55 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $74.68 ↑ +16%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $74.90 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $80.25 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $80.25 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $85.60 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $85.60 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $85.60 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $85.60 ↑ +33%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $90.95 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $90.95 ↑ +42%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $90.95 ↑ +42%

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Semen analysis w/count at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $67.20 $8.00 – $95.20
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $62.40 $7.43 – $88.40
UPMC Muncy Muncy $176.40 $6.72 – $235.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $55.80 $7.81 – $79.05
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $213.60 $6.72 – $240.30

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