Lung Function Test Before and After an Inhaler at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$664.20
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.
$1,107.00
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.
$20.90 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $940.95 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $20.90 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $20.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $28.18 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $29.66 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $32.38 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $49.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $129.25 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $143.22 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $162.17 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $173.11 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $173.16 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $191.81 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $256.33 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $278.96 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $303.32 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $309.96 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $309.96 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $311.72 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $320.60 | ↓ -52% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $320.63 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $326.57 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $346.22 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $420.66 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $442.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $442.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $774.90 | ↑ +17% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $885.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $885.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $940.95 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Lung Function Test Before and After an Inhaler at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $154.80 | $20.90 – $320.63 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $456.60 | $20.90 – $326.57 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $988.80 | $20.90 – $326.57 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,790.40 | $13.68 – $326.57 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $322.80 | $11.40 – $430.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $306.60 | $19.95 – $459.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $650.40 | $14.93 – $921.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $155.40 | $19.95 – $207.20 |