Plmt nephroureteral catheter at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$4,763.40
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.
$7,939.00
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.
$769.05 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $6,351.20 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $769.05 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $778.88 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,363.43 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,459.06 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,712.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,225.87 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,293.20 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $2,619.87 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,786.59 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,981.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,016.82 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,032.70 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,096.21 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $3,096.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,096.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,096.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $3,175.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,175.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,175.60 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $3,297.06 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,359.20 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,452.59 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $3,452.59 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,518.35 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,550.91 | ↓ -25% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,551.23 | ↓ -25% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,551.23 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,551.23 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $3,617.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,617.00 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,969.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $4,366.45 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $4,366.45 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,586.41 | ↓ -4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5,557.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6,351.20 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Plmt nephroureteral catheter at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,500.60 | $761.79 – $6,000.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $4,763.40 | $1,008.26 – $7,145.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $5,190.00 | $1,016.56 – $7,352.50 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $5,190.00 | $1,016.56 – $7,352.50 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,280.00 | $761.79 – $4,782.42 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $5,190.00 | $1,016.56 – $5,271.68 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $5,190.00 | $1,016.56 – $5,300.16 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4,763.40 | $769.05 – $3,617.00 |