Nm imaging bone/joint whole body at UPMC East

2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$2,164.80

Cash price

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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.

$3,608.00

Gross charge

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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.

$111.63 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,886.40 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $111.63 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $116.70 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $141.05 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $150.49 ↓ -93%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $153.03 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $158.42 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $172.94 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $207.15 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $237.60 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $384.13 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $391.37 ↓ -82%
Aetna of PA Medicare $402.25 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $402.25 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare $409.92 ↓ -81%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $413.71 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $413.75 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $413.75 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $413.75 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $421.41 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare $421.41 ↓ -81%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $511.06 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $529.03 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $687.70 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $708.50 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $753.03 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $921.02 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $1,190.64 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1,266.41 ↓ -41%
Aetna EBR FI $1,371.04 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1,378.26 ↓ -36%
Cigna New Business ASO $1,407.12 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $1,407.12 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1,407.12 ↓ -35%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $1,407.12 ↓ -35%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,417.00 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $1,443.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $1,443.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $1,443.20 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $1,804.00 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2,525.60 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $2,886.40 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Nm imaging bone/joint whole body at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $679.20 $61.50 – $905.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $626.40 $106.55 – $939.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,228.80 $80.56 – $1,740.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $829.80 $106.55 – $1,106.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,228.80 $80.56 – $753.03
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,219.80 $111.63 – $546.54
UPMC Northwest Seneca $797.40 $111.63 – $472.51
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,228.80 $80.56 – $614.19

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