Guide wire threaded 1.4x150mm at UPMC McKeesport

1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353

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

$2,259.00

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.

$3,765.00

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.

$10.75 with Aetna vs $975.77 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.

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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
Aetna Medicare $10.75 ↓ -100%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $14.92 ↓ -99%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $16.21 ↓ -99%
Aetna EBR FI $16.34 ↓ -99%
Cigna New Business ASO $16.55 ↓ -99%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $16.55 ↓ -99%
Aetna EBR ASO $17.20 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial $17.20 ↓ -99%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $21.50 ↓ -99%
InterGroup PPO $21.50 ↓ -99%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $23.65 ↓ -99%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $25.80 ↓ -99%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $30.10 ↓ -99%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $34.40 ↓ -98%
SelectCare Commercial $34.40 ↓ -98%
Humana Commercial $36.55 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $61.72 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $230.83 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $232.68 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $309.15 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $311.62 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $473.76 ↓ -79%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $682.00 ↓ -70%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $922.88 ↓ -59%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $975.77 ↓ -57%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital —

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Guide wire threaded 1.4x150mm at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,506.20 $10.83 – $473.76
UPMC Bedford Everett $677.40 $14.25 – $473.76
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,575.00 $24.89 – $104.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $2,162.40 $11.80 – $473.76
UPMC East Monroeville $2,622.00 $8.00 – $473.76
UPMC Hamot Erie $6,678.00 $61.14 – $61.14
UPMC Northwest Seneca $2,001.60 $158.67 – $573.29
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,035.60 $155.81 – $473.76

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