Radiation treatment aid(s) at UPMC East

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

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

$395.40

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.

$659.00

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.

$60.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $549.48 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.

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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 $60.50 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $63.25 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $76.44 ↓ -81%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $81.56 ↓ -79%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $82.94 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $85.86 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $92.14 ↓ -77%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $93.73 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $126.92 ↓ -68%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $129.31 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $130.78 ↓ -67%
Aetna of PA Medicare $132.91 ↓ -66%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $132.91 ↓ -66%
United Healthcare Medicare $135.44 ↓ -66%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $136.69 ↓ -65%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $136.71 ↓ -65%
Cigna Medicare $136.71 ↓ -65%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $136.71 ↓ -65%
Aetna Medicare $139.24 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $139.24 ↓ -65%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $198.10 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $205.14 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $217.47 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $231.31 ↓ -41%
Aetna EBR FI $250.42 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $251.74 ↓ -36%
United Healthcare All Business $257.01 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $257.01 ↓ -35%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $257.01 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $257.01 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $263.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $263.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $263.60 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $266.67 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $274.74 ↓ -31%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $278.94 ↓ -29%
InterGroup PPO $329.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $357.15 ↓ -10%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $461.30 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $527.20 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $549.48 ↑ +39%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Radiation treatment aid(s) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $411.60 $32.50 – $548.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $489.00 $42.58 – $692.75
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $489.00 $42.58 – $692.75
UPMC Northwest Seneca $425.40 $60.50 – $184.69
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $454.20 $60.50 – $184.69
UPMC Lititz Lititz $489.00 $42.58 – $204.03
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,484.40 $60.50 – $198.10
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $418.20 $60.50 – $198.10

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