Removal of foreign body at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$9,102.60
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.
$15,171.00
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.
$130.35 with UPMC Health Plan vs $12,136.80 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 | $130.35 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $136.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $164.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $175.74 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $178.70 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $184.99 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $201.95 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $794.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,646.97 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,735.99 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2,787.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,865.05 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $2,865.05 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,919.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,946.64 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,946.91 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,946.91 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,946.91 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $3,001.48 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,001.48 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,667.03 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,766.86 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,911.06 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $5,006.43 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $5,168.46 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $5,325.02 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $5,764.98 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5,795.32 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,916.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,916.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $5,916.69 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $5,916.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6,068.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $6,068.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $6,068.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $6,384.16 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $7,441.38 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $7,585.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $9,822.12 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $10,619.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $12,136.80 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Removal of foreign body at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $778.80 | $124.42 – $2,325.85 |
| WellSpan Newberry Hospital | Etters | not published | not published |