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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, with contrast) at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$2,542.20
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.
$4,237.00
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.
$341.40 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,389.60 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $341.40 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $347.83 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $355.15 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $357.50 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $357.50 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $364.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $367.68 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $367.72 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $371.29 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $374.53 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $374.53 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $448.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $459.93 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $478.80 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $486.87 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $504.02 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $550.22 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $727.96 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $959.98 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,024.05 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,331.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,371.46 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1,398.21 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,487.19 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,610.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,618.53 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,652.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,652.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,652.43 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,652.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,694.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,694.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,694.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,782.83 | ↓ -30% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,118.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,646.28 | ↑ +4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,742.91 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,965.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,389.60 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, with contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,530.80 | $316.41 – $3,585.30 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,178.60 | $148.12 – $6,041.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,854.80 | $338.22 – $4,044.30 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,699.20 | $267.41 – $2,265.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,384.20 | $276.76 – $1,845.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,854.80 | $347.79 – $4,044.30 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,854.80 | $337.76 – $4,139.46 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,802.40 | $304.83 – $2,553.40 |