Composite drsg >16<=48 sq in at UPMC East

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

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

$4.20

Cash price

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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.

$7.00

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.

$1.75 with Aetna vs $85.97 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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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
Aetna Medicare $1.75 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $2.31 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $2.46 ↓ -41%
Aetna EBR FI $2.66 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $2.67 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $2.73 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $2.73 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $2.73 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $2.73 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $2.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $2.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2.80 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $3.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $3.50 ↓ -17%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $3.85 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $3.85 ↓ -8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $4.90 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $5.60 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $11.15 ↑ +165%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $14.32 ↑ +241%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $32.10 ↑ +664%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $32.26 ↑ +668%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $34.83 ↑ +729%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $42.27 ↑ +906%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $42.98 ↑ +923%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $43.21 ↑ +929%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $85.97 ↑ +1947%

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Composite drsg >16<=48 sq in at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Northwest Seneca $42.60 $14.32 – $42.15
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $4.80 $5.86 – $34.83
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $3.60 $11.04 – $27.50
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $4.80 $11.15 – $50.55
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $6.00 $6.73 – $56.32
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $43.20 $11.15 – $42.74
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $5.40 $7.18 – $14.32

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