Insertion intravascular vena cava (ivc) access supervision & interpretation w/imaging guidance at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$2,328.00
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.
$3,880.00
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.
$1,280.40 with United Healthcare vs $18,858.40 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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| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1,280.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,361.88 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,474.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,482.16 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,513.20 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,513.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,513.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,513.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,552.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,552.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,552.00 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,940.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,134.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,134.00 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,565.13 | ↑ +10% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,716.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,104.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $3,162.17 | ↑ +36% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3,625.84 | ↑ +56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4,490.25 | ↑ +93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $5,167.60 | ↑ +122% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $5,265.01 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,411.37 | ↑ +132% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $5,411.37 | ↑ +132% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5,514.45 | ↑ +137% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,565.47 | ↑ +139% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +139% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,565.99 | ↑ +139% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +139% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,669.06 | ↑ +144% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $5,669.06 | ↑ +144% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $7,040.68 | ↑ +202% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $9,152.33 | ↑ +293% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $9,429.20 | ↑ +305% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $12,257.54 | ↑ +427% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $18,858.40 | ↑ +710% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Insertion intravascular vena cava (ivc) access supervision & interpretation w/imaging guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $6,817.80 | $3,132.34 – $9,090.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $9,498.60 | $1,016.56 – $13,456.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,911.00 | $882.88 – $3,625.84 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $9,498.60 | $1,016.56 – $13,456.35 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $7,189.20 | $3,132.34 – $7,495.67 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,806.60 | $3,235.87 – $5,565.99 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $9,498.60 | $1,016.56 – $8,262.51 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $3,606.00 | $2,515.42 – $6,093.80 |