Pt application of modality traction mechanical at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$93.00
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.
$155.00
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.
$21.77 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $124.00 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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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 | $21.77 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $37.80 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $38.75 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $42.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $50.63 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $51.15 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $54.41 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $58.90 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $59.21 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $60.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $60.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $60.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $60.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $62.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $62.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $62.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $63.00 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $75.32 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $77.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $77.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $84.38 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $85.25 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $85.25 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $91.40 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $101.25 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $108.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $124.00 | ↑ +33% |
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Pt application of modality traction mechanical at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $65.40 | $14.87 – $87.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $187.80 | $21.56 – $100.11 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $90.60 | $43.65 – $61.07 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $130.20 | $21.56 – $59.48 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $103.20 | $16.76 – $45.14 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $213.60 | $15.71 – $121.78 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $133.20 | $21.77 – $92.42 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $124.80 | $16.76 – $38.06 |