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#creutz-prot.,western blot at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$1,726.80
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.
$2,878.00
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.
$25.22 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,446.30 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $25.22 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $27.00 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $27.00 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $28.87 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $30.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $31.54 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $31.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $32.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $36.41 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $38.33 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $41.84 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $41.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $49.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $85.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $114.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $142.95 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $191.45 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $229.97 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $725.26 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $788.57 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $805.84 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $805.84 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,093.64 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,151.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,151.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,014.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,302.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $2,302.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,446.30 | ↑ +42% |
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#creutz-prot.,western blot at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $571.20 | $27.00 – $808.35 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $190.20 | $24.35 – $285.30 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $146.40 | $27.00 – $195.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $166.20 | $26.49 – $235.45 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $147.60 | $27.00 – $184.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $176.80 | $24.55 – $198.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $146.40 | $27.00 – $195.20 |