Pr incision & drainage abscess simple/single at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$561.00
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.
$935.00
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.
$25.85 with UPMC Health Plan vs $794.75 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $25.85 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $25.85 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $34.85 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $36.69 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $40.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $131.35 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $144.28 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $144.69 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $175.59 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $194.33 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $198.91 | ↓ -65% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $204.60 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $204.60 | ↓ -64% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $204.60 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $208.38 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $274.93 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $324.44 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $352.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $355.30 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $359.98 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $359.98 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $368.19 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $374.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $374.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $402.14 | ↓ -28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $467.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $495.21 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $561.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $654.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $663.23 | ↑ +18% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $748.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $748.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $794.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pr incision & drainage abscess simple/single at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $518.40 | $23.50 – $691.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $324.00 | $24.68 – $486.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $510.60 | $29.84 – $810.89 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $371.40 | $24.39 – $2,094.25 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $510.60 | $29.84 – $810.89 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $543.60 | $25.85 – $724.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $543.00 | $25.85 – $275.52 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $431.40 | $25.85 – $198.91 |