Esd endoscopy or colonoscopy at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$4,282.20
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.
$7,137.00
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.
$1,067.95 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $7,472.09 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.
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 | $1,067.95 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $2,355.21 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,497.95 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,505.09 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,712.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,726.33 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,783.43 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $2,783.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,783.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,783.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,789.54 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,854.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,854.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,854.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,091.00 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,500.70 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,568.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $3,636.95 | ↓ -15% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,705.51 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,736.05 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,808.52 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $3,808.52 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,881.06 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,916.97 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,917.33 | ↓ -9% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,917.33 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,917.33 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3,925.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,925.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,989.88 | ↓ -7% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $3,989.88 | ↓ -7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,139.72 | ↓ -3% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,995.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,709.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $7,472.09 | ↑ +74% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Esd endoscopy or colonoscopy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,517.80 | $1,057.88 – $4,690.40 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $6,300.00 | $1,067.95 – $3,989.88 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $4,282.20 | $1,067.95 – $3,989.88 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,282.20 | $1,057.88 – $3,989.88 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $6,853.80 | $1,067.95 – $3,989.88 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,434.20 | $1,067.95 – $3,989.88 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,282.20 | $1,067.95 – $3,989.88 |