Change cystostomy tube simple at UPMC East

2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$357.60

Cash price

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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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$596.00

Gross charge

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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.

$30.80 with UPMC Health Plan vs $476.80 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $30.80 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $32.20 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $38.92 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $41.52 ↓ -88%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $42.22 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $43.71 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $47.72 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $56.30 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $124.51 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $125.34 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $162.94 ↓ -54%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $167.87 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $183.23 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $196.68 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $209.20 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $218.22 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $226.48 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $227.67 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $232.44 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $232.44 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $232.44 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $232.44 ↓ -35%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $232.50 ↓ -35%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $236.88 ↓ -34%
Cigna EBR $238.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $238.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $238.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna of PA Medicare $243.46 ↓ -32%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $243.46 ↓ -32%
United Healthcare Medicare $248.10 ↓ -31%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $250.40 ↓ -30%
Cigna Medicare $250.42 ↓ -30%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $250.42 ↓ -30%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $250.42 ↓ -30%
Aetna Medicare $255.06 ↓ -29%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $255.06 ↓ -29%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $292.34 ↓ -18%
InterGroup PPO $298.00 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $335.73 ↓ -6%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $417.20 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $476.80 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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