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Diabetes (HbA1c) Test at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$97.20
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.
$162.00
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.
$7.70 with UPMC Health Plan vs $137.70 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $7.70 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $7.70 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $8.38 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $9.60 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $10.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $10.38 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $10.49 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $10.49 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $10.68 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $10.93 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $11.93 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $18.91 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $20.79 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $36.14 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $40.82 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $44.39 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $45.36 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $45.36 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $48.41 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $60.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $61.56 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $64.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $64.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $80.59 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $96.81 | ↓ -0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $113.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $129.60 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $129.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $137.70 | ↑ +42% |
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Diabetes (HbA1c) Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $236.40 | $7.70 – $334.90 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $75.00 | $7.70 – $115.00 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $114.60 | $7.70 – $171.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $416.40 | $7.00 – $589.90 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $158.40 | $7.00 – $211.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $125.40 | $7.00 – $146.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $49.20 | $7.00 – $69.70 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $86.40 | $7.00 – $115.20 |