Sigmoidoscopy w/resection at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$3,418.80
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.
$5,698.00
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.
$112.93 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,558.40 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 | $112.93 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $251.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $326.85 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $336.74 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $437.74 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $673.47 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1,880.34 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,994.30 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,000.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,165.24 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,176.64 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,222.22 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $2,222.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,222.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,222.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,279.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,279.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,279.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,621.60 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2,671.01 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,745.27 | ↓ -20% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $2,745.27 | ↓ -20% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,794.87 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,797.56 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,823.44 | ↓ -17% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,823.70 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,823.70 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,823.70 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,849.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,875.99 | ↓ -16% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $2,875.99 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3,133.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,133.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,988.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,558.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Sigmoidoscopy w/resection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2,564.40 | $112.93 – $2,875.99 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,564.40 | $111.86 – $2,875.99 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,564.40 | $112.93 – $2,875.99 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,417.60 | $112.93 – $2,875.99 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,564.40 | $112.93 – $2,875.99 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $461.75 – $4,217.85 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | not published | $970.00 – $12,612.53 |
| WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital | Lebanon | not published | $1,101.92 – $8,193.88 |