Ins vag brachytx device at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$1,144.80
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.
$1,908.00
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.
$224.29 with UPMC Work Partners vs $2,295.61 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $224.29 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $275.83 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $290.79 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $296.27 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $304.51 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $304.51 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $310.31 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $313.18 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $313.21 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $313.21 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $313.21 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $319.01 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $319.01 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $614.14 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $629.64 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $669.71 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $725.04 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $728.86 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $744.12 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $744.12 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $744.12 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $744.12 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $763.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $763.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $763.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $798.33 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $822.48 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $935.87 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $954.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,049.40 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,049.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,069.19 | ↓ -7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,335.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,526.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,644.97 | ↑ +44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,295.61 | ↑ +101% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ins vag brachytx device at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,732.80 | $224.29 – $2,310.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,102.80 | $234.72 – $2,295.61 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,102.80 | $234.72 – $2,295.61 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,862.60 | $224.29 – $319.01 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,102.80 | $222.69 – $2,295.61 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,562.20 | $224.29 – $319.01 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,102.80 | $224.29 – $892.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $561.60 | $224.29 – $993.28 |