Ghs intro needle/intracath vein - 36000 at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$489.60
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.
$816.00
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.
$8.89 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $693.60 with Humana — 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $8.89 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $8.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $10.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $11.98 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $12.61 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $13.77 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $82.27 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $93.83 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $163.86 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $196.38 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $263.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $283.15 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $300.89 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $307.63 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $310.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $314.16 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $314.16 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $326.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $326.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $353.73 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $408.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $408.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $473.74 | ↓ -3% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $489.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $571.20 | ↑ +17% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $652.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $652.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $693.60 | ↑ +42% |
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Ghs intro needle/intracath vein - 36000 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $226.80 | $8.48 – $134.23 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $595.20 | $8.89 – $148.28 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $406.80 | $8.89 – $92.94 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $118.20 | $8.89 – $993.28 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $143.20 | $8.89 – $993.28 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $100.80 | $10.10 – $90.72 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $100.80 | $10.10 – $27.47 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $96.50 | not published |