Catheter stripping venous at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$5,776.20
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.
$9,627.00
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.
$193.97 with UPMC Health Plan vs $8,305.96 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $193.97 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $202.79 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $245.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $261.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $265.92 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $275.28 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $300.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,392.74 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,568.28 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,805.10 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $3,008.86 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,065.58 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,100.99 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,150.80 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $3,150.80 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $3,176.91 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,210.81 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,240.52 | ↓ -44% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↓ -44% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,240.82 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,300.84 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $3,300.84 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,379.08 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,658.26 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,677.51 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $3,754.53 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,754.53 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,754.53 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,754.53 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $3,850.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,850.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,850.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,031.04 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,152.98 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,722.04 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,813.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $5,398.69 | ↓ -7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6,738.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,701.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $8,305.96 | ↑ +44% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Catheter stripping venous at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $6,231.60 | $223.95 – $8,828.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $6,231.60 | $223.95 – $8,828.10 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,910.60 | $193.97 – $4,364.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $6,231.60 | $223.95 – $4,810.90 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $6,231.60 | $223.95 – $4,836.88 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $8,396.40 | $193.97 – $3,240.82 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $5,831.40 | $193.97 – $3,300.84 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $6,231.60 | $223.95 – $4,829.02 |