Wound therapy negative pressure per session <= 50 sq cm at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$178.80
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.
$298.00
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.
$30.08 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $418.99 with Aetna — 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 | $30.08 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $78.57 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $103.41 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $104.30 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $105.23 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $112.35 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $113.24 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $113.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $114.73 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $114.73 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $119.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $119.20 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $149.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $151.88 | ↓ -15% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $163.90 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $167.45 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $178.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $208.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $238.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $238.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $253.30 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $353.06 | ↑ +97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $390.73 | ↑ +119% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $399.94 | ↑ +124% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $411.37 | ↑ +130% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $411.37 | ↑ +130% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $411.37 | ↑ +130% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $418.99 | ↑ +134% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Wound therapy negative pressure per session <= 50 sq cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $253.20 | $29.80 – $411.37 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $197.40 | $82.63 – $411.37 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $171.00 | $29.80 – $474.78 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $211.20 | $77.33 – $77.33 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $262.20 | $72.27 – $411.37 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $262.20 | $30.32 – $476.12 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $176.40 | $30.08 – $418.99 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $123.60 | $29.80 – $418.99 |