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Transplt autol hct/donor at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$3,393.00
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.
$5,655.00
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.
$235.07 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $157,615.00 with OptumHealth/URN Transplant — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $235.07 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $400.15 | ↓ -88% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $465.29 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $582.71 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $780.32 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $931.20 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,017.90 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,196.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,560.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,602.68 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,687.89 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,687.89 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $1,687.89 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,687.89 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,687.89 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,719.15 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,719.15 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,793.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,110.25 | ↓ -8% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,675.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,958.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $4,241.25 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $4,241.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $4,524.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,524.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $4,524.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $4,524.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $4,806.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $4,806.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,806.75 | ↑ +42% |
| OptumHealth/URN Transplant | Medicaid - Transplant Only | $133,972.00 | ↑ +3848% |
| OptumHealth/URN Transplant | Medicare - Transplant Only | $157,615.00 | ↑ +4545% |
| OptumHealth/URN Transplant | Commercial - Transplant Only | $157,615.00 | ↑ +4545% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Transplt autol hct/donor at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,260.40 | $232.85 – $4,890.60 |