Highmark Insurance Highmark, UPMC Picking Up The Bill For COVID-19 Testing By Sarah Boden • Mar 6, 2020 Sarah Boden / 90.5 WESA News The two dominant health insurers in western Pennsylvania are picking up the bill for COVID-19 testing, when recommended by a medical professional. UPMC Dropping Prepayments Policy For Some Patients By Associated Press • Jun 6, 2019 Marcus Charleston / 90.5 WESA University Pittsburgh Medical Center is dropping plans to seek prepayment from out-of-network Highmark Medicare Advantage patients when consent decrees linking the competing health care giants end on June 30. Why Health Care Systems Are Building Micro Hospitals By Sarah Boden • Feb 26, 2018 Sarah Boden / 90.5 WESA Listen Listening... / 4:11 At the northeast corner of US Route 30 and Agnew Road in Westmoreland County, there’s a sloping, nine-acre lot of mostly gravel and overgrown brush.