Collar cerv ascend 172 reg at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$436.80
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.
$728.00
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.
$29.07 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $1,318.91 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.
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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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| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $29.07 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $33.66 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $38.25 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $50.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $50.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $53.70 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $58.14 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $58.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $59.67 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $59.67 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $59.67 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $59.67 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $61.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | EBR | $61.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $61.20 | ↓ -86% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $76.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $76.50 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $84.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $107.10 | ↓ -75% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $122.40 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $171.01 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $241.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $492.42 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $494.95 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $630.73 | ↑ +44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $659.45 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $662.87 | ↑ +52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $765.39 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,318.91 | ↑ +202% |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $156.00 | $49.40 – $630.73 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $464.40 | $169.39 – $241.85 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $236.40 | $241.85 – $763.24 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $249.60 | $241.85 – $630.73 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $130.20 | $75.87 – $630.73 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $334.20 | $169.39 – $498.05 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $135.00 | $110.66 – $258.72 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $388.20 | $171.01 – $915.27 |