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Stress tte complete 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

$3,415.80

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.

$5,693.00

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.

$143.05 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $4,839.05 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $143.05 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $204.09 ↓ -94%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $241.20 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $275.16 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $279.79 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $288.83 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $293.60 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $316.20 ↓ -91%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $477.50 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $493.16 ↓ -86%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $555.23 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $564.56 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare $564.56 ↓ -83%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $564.56 ↓ -83%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $564.56 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $564.56 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $575.01 ↓ -83%
Aetna of PA Medicare $575.01 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $1,222.49 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $1,637.07 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,652.03 ↓ -52%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $2,298.35 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $3,078.06 ↓ -10%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $3,274.14 ↓ -4%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $3,700.45 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,985.10 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $4,269.75 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $4,269.75 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $4,554.40 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $4,554.40 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $4,554.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $4,554.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $4,839.05 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $4,839.05 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $4,839.05 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Stress tte complete at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $2,034.00 $204.09 – $3,051.00
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,775.00 $204.09 – $3,931.25
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $1,935.00 $204.09 – $2,741.25
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1,989.60 $152.59 – $2,652.80
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,793.40 $137.09 – $483.57
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $2,406.40 $152.59 – $2,707.20
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $1,989.60 $152.59 – $2,652.80

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