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Urea nitrogen 24 hour urine 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

$322.80

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.

$538.00

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.

$4.07 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $457.30 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 $4.07 ↓ -99%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.50 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $6.00 ↓ -98%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $6.00 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $6.00 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6.00 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $6.00 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $6.12 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $6.12 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $6.39 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $8.15 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $12.76 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $21.21 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $28.40 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $33.52 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $44.90 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $56.81 ↓ -82%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $96.84 ↓ -70%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $295.90 ↓ -8%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $349.70 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $376.60 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $403.50 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $403.50 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $430.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $430.40 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $430.40 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $430.40 ↑ +33%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $457.30 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $457.30 ↑ +42%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $457.30 ↑ +42%

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Urea nitrogen 24 hour urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $89.40 $5.17 – $126.65
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $47.40 $4.63 – $71.10
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $106.20 $4.80 – $150.45
UPMC Muncy Muncy $63.60 $4.34 – $84.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $43.80 $5.04 – $62.05
UPMC Somerset Somerset $28.80 $3.90 – $36.00
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $76.60 $4.34 – $85.95
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $63.00 $4.34 – $84.00

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