Placement localization device(s) breast percutaneous ultrasound guidance 1st lesion (both sides) at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$2,254.20
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.
$3,757.00
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.
$77.78 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,005.60 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 | $77.78 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $81.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $98.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $104.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $106.63 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $110.39 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $120.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $327.96 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $618.68 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $672.60 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $685.28 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $704.33 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $704.33 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $717.75 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $724.39 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $724.45 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $724.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $724.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $730.21 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $737.87 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $737.87 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $799.42 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $949.21 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $977.93 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1,239.81 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,271.26 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,318.71 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,399.38 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,427.66 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,435.17 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,465.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,465.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,465.23 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,465.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,502.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,502.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,502.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,878.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,955.85 | ↓ -13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,629.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,005.60 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Placement localization device(s) breast percutaneous ultrasound guidance 1st lesion (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,606.40 | $70.71 – $3,475.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $3,631.80 | $74.25 – $5,447.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,162.20 | $89.80 – $1,646.45 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $337.20 | $74.25 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,162.20 | $92.63 – $1,646.45 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,906.80 | $77.78 – $975.61 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,593.00 | $77.78 – $704.33 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,162.20 | $89.80 – $1,075.42 |