Block tap inj(s) w/wo img uni at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$585.60
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.
$976.00
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.
$82.34 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $780.80 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 | $82.34 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $164.62 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $183.34 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $238.32 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $244.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $245.53 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $274.48 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $319.18 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $322.08 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $342.58 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $370.88 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $372.83 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $380.64 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $380.64 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $380.64 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $380.64 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $390.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $390.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $390.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $480.48 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $488.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $488.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $491.06 | ↓ -16% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $536.80 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $536.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $683.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $780.80 | ↑ +33% |
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Block tap inj(s) w/wo img uni at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $507.60 | $81.56 – $676.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $67.80 | $31.32 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $787.20 | $81.56 – $596.53 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $691.20 | $158.68 – $269.16 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $652.20 | $48.24 – $480.48 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $1,811.40 | $164.62 – $470.53 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $511.80 | $53.06 – $436.22 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,914.60 | $81.56 – $265.60 |