Colonoscopy with ablation at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$1,647.60
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.
$2,746.00
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.
$327.47 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,196.80 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.
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 | $327.47 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $729.12 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $906.18 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $947.80 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $961.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $963.85 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $976.47 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,043.48 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,048.97 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,070.94 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,070.94 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,070.94 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,070.94 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,098.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,098.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,098.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,127.15 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,148.39 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,180.32 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,180.32 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,202.80 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,213.93 | ↓ -26% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,214.04 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,214.04 | ↓ -26% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,214.04 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $1,236.52 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,236.52 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,269.37 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,346.91 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,373.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,510.30 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,510.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,922.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,952.94 | ↑ +19% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,196.80 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Colonoscopy with ablation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,044.20 | $324.38 – $2,725.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,467.80 | $405.58 – $3,701.70 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,701.80 | $324.38 – $1,634.95 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,560.00 | $631.06 – $1,214.04 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,327.40 | $327.47 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,333.20 | $324.38 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,488.60 | $327.47 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,759.00 | $327.47 – $1,236.52 |