Ghs layer closure 2.6 - 7.5 cm - 12042 at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$829.20
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.
$1,382.00
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.
$39.05 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,174.70 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 | $39.05 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $39.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $52.65 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $55.42 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $60.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $206.41 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $228.29 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $311.87 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $353.06 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $390.73 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $399.94 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $411.37 | ↓ -50% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $411.37 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $411.37 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $418.99 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $432.02 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $479.55 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $521.01 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $525.16 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $532.07 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $532.07 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $552.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $552.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $578.59 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $636.27 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $691.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $778.20 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $829.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $967.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,042.22 | ↑ +26% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,105.60 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,105.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,174.70 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Ghs layer closure 2.6 - 7.5 cm - 12042 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $820.80 | $35.50 – $1,094.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $454.20 | $37.27 – $681.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $819.00 | $45.09 – $1,160.25 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $910.20 | $37.27 – $2,325.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $819.00 | $45.09 – $1,160.25 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $856.80 | $39.05 – $1,142.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $857.40 | $39.05 – $554.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $610.80 | $39.05 – $399.94 |