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Red blood cells each unit at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$378.60
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.
$631.00
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.
$33.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,959.25 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $33.00 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $33.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $44.49 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $46.83 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $51.13 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $81.70 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $118.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $142.03 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $144.47 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $148.58 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $148.60 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $151.35 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $159.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $172.89 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $176.68 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $176.68 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $189.29 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $190.21 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $236.47 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $239.78 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $252.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $252.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $316.71 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $380.43 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $441.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $504.80 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $504.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $536.35 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,959.25 | ↑ +682% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Red blood cells each unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $630.00 | $33.00 – $945.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $384.00 | $33.00 – $225.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,500.80 | $33.00 – $3,542.80 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $759.60 | $33.00 – $1,012.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,855.20 | $33.00 – $2,628.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $200.40 | $33.00 – $250.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $919.20 | $33.00 – $629.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $759.60 | $33.00 – $1,012.80 |