Sclerotherapy fluid collection pq w/img at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
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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.
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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.
$667.92 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,983.32 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.
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 | $667.92 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,267.18 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,487.15 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,548.87 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,578.07 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,621.93 | — |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,621.93 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,652.83 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,668.12 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,668.28 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,668.28 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,668.28 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,699.17 | — |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $1,699.17 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,933.18 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,991.66 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,589.07 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,983.32 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Sclerotherapy fluid collection pq w/img at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,643.60 | $603.62 – $3,745.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,643.60 | $881.20 – $3,745.10 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,801.60 | $661.62 – $2,246.66 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,643.60 | $1,198.30 – $2,476.51 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $2,643.60 | $1,198.30 – $2,489.89 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,901.00 | $667.92 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $2,643.60 | $539.25 – $2,485.84 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,754.60 | $661.62 – $1,699.17 |