Coronary catheterization w/angiography supervision & interpretation at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$4,693.80
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.
$7,823.00
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.
$1,100.30 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $6,870.28 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,100.30 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,296.48 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,714.58 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,842.30 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,874.04 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,949.27 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,972.74 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,011.86 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,011.86 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,129.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,129.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,145.57 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,219.78 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -29% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -29% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,311.78 | ↓ -29% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,335.70 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,373.11 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,849.22 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,911.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,148.20 | ↓ -12% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $4,302.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $4,693.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5,476.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $5,555.59 | ↑ +18% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $6,258.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6,258.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $6,649.55 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6,870.28 | ↑ +46% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Coronary catheterization w/angiography supervision & interpretation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $9,344.40 | $1,089.93 – $12,459.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $4,739.40 | $1,016.56 – $6,714.15 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $4,739.40 | $1,016.56 – $6,714.15 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $5,641.20 | $1,100.30 – $7,521.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $9,016.20 | $1,089.93 – $4,459.95 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $4,739.40 | $1,016.56 – $4,916.22 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $8,597.40 | $892.40 – $3,833.07 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $4,739.40 | $1,016.56 – $4,942.77 |