Drain cath image guided visceral pq at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$7,281.60
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.
$12,136.00
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.
$190.71 with UPMC Health Plan vs $9,708.80 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $190.71 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $199.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $240.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $257.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $261.44 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $270.65 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $295.46 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $618.08 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,166.03 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,376.18 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,548.87 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,578.07 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,621.93 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,621.93 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,652.83 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,668.12 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,668.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,668.28 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,668.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,699.17 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $1,699.17 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,788.93 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,843.05 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,395.88 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,686.09 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $4,004.88 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4,247.60 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $4,259.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,611.68 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $4,635.95 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,733.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $4,733.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $4,733.04 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $4,733.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,854.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $4,854.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,854.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,952.71 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $6,068.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $8,495.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $9,708.80 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Drain cath image guided visceral pq at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,876.60 | $173.37 – $5,168.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,637.20 | $220.18 – $5,152.70 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,637.20 | $234.05 – $5,152.70 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $8,322.60 | $190.71 – $2,246.66 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $7,281.60 | $190.71 – $1,621.93 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $3,637.20 | $220.18 – $2,476.51 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $3,025.20 | $190.71 – $2,085.34 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $3,637.20 | $220.18 – $2,489.89 |