Bacterial meningitis antigen at UPMC Memorial

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$42.60

Cash price

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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.

$71.00

Gross charge

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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.

$11.71 with Prime Net vs $73.72 with Capital Blue Cross — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Prime Net Managed Medicare $11.71 ↓ -73%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $11.93 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare $12.04 ↓ -72%
Geisinger Medicare $12.12 ↓ -72%
Cigna Medicare $12.12 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Medicare $12.35 ↓ -71%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $14.08 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $14.20 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $14.20 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $16.04 ↓ -62%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $17.88 ↓ -58%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $18.30 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $18.44 ↓ -57%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $18.46 ↓ -57%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $19.18 ↓ -55%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $20.51 ↓ -52%
United Healthcare Commercial $26.14 ↓ -39%
Prime Net ACO/Legacy Commercial $29.11 ↓ -32%
Aetna ACO $29.32 ↓ -31%
Cigna Commercial $30.00 ↓ -30%
Prime Net GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper $33.87 ↓ -20%
Aetna Commercial $34.08 ↓ -20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $38.23 ↓ -10%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $40.67 ↓ -5%
Geisinger Commercial $46.49 ↑ +9%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $49.70 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $49.70 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $52.90 ↑ +24%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $60.35 ↑ +42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $63.78 ↑ +50%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $73.72 ↑ +73%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $73.72 ↑ +73%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $73.72 ↑ +73%

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Bacterial meningitis antigen at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $100.80 $11.40 – $134.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $46.80 $4.16 – $70.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $42.60 $9.73 – $60.35
UPMC Cole Coudersport $105.00 $7.50 – $140.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $42.60 $11.42 – $63.78
UPMC East Monroeville $153.00 $11.40 – $204.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $45.00 $11.40 – $19.68
UPMC Northwest Seneca $236.40 $10.47 – $16.19

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