Brachytx isodose plan simple at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$688.80
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.
$1,148.00
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.
$72.56 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,076.59 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.
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 | $72.56 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $155.87 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $161.57 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $162.96 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $196.95 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $210.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $210.14 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $213.68 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $216.38 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $221.21 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $241.49 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $241.82 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $281.28 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $349.94 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $356.54 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $366.45 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $366.45 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $373.43 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $376.89 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $376.92 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $376.92 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $376.92 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $378.84 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $383.90 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $383.90 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $402.95 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $432.76 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $436.24 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $438.54 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $447.72 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $447.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $447.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $447.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $459.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $459.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $459.20 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $574.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $803.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $918.40 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $973.59 | ↑ +41% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,076.59 | ↑ +201% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Brachytx isodose plan simple at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $817.20 | $111.45 – $1,157.70 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $817.20 | $111.45 – $2,076.59 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $817.20 | $111.45 – $562.56 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,294.80 | $72.56 – $376.92 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $817.20 | $58.59 – $695.28 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,288.20 | $72.56 – $383.90 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $817.20 | $71.15 – $349.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,241.40 | $108.90 – $373.43 |