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ER Visit (level 3) at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$880.20
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.
$1,467.00
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.
$62.31 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,173.60 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 | $62.31 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $65.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $78.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $85.43 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $88.44 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $96.54 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $112.78 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $120.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $239.50 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $250.74 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $264.69 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $269.68 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $282.46 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $285.07 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $285.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $285.10 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $285.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $290.38 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $290.38 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $324.75 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $326.42 | ↓ -63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $355.10 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $434.91 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $437.16 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $484.11 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $514.92 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $557.46 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $560.39 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $572.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $572.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $572.13 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $572.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $586.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $586.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $586.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $733.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $869.82 | ↓ -1% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,026.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,173.60 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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ER Visit (level 3) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $763.20 | $62.31 – $1,081.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $793.20 | $62.31 – $925.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $887.40 | $45.50 – $1,257.15 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $709.20 | $79.00 – $945.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $429.60 | $59.48 – $644.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $274.20 | $39.46 – $272.94 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $887.40 | $45.50 – $1,257.15 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $887.40 | $62.31 – $1,286.73 |