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Warde infectious agent nucleic acid genotype hepatitis c at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$1,928.40
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.
$3,214.00
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.
$205.86 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,212.22 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | Commercial | $205.86 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $222.28 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $254.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $270.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $278.02 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $278.05 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $283.19 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $689.88 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $809.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $880.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $899.92 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $899.92 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,199.24 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,221.32 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,285.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,285.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,606.11 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,767.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,996.73 | ↑ +4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,249.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,571.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $2,571.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,674.18 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,731.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,212.22 | ↑ +67% |
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Warde infectious agent nucleic acid genotype hepatitis c at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,667.00 | $204.16 – $4,000.50 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,834.20 | $205.36 – $2,598.45 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,624.80 | $188.45 – $2,301.80 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,579.80 | $201.01 – $2,106.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,321.40 | $205.45 – $3,288.65 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,431.00 | $180.60 – $1,788.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,911.20 | $101.88 – $509.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,579.80 | $201.01 – $2,106.40 |