Small bowel endoscopy at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$2,151.00
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.
$3,585.00
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.
$76.74 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,281.43 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $76.74 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $80.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $96.96 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $103.45 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $105.20 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $108.90 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $118.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $550.23 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $676.10 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $896.26 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $913.16 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $938.54 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $938.54 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $956.42 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $965.27 | ↓ -55% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $965.36 | ↓ -55% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $965.36 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $965.36 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $983.24 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $983.24 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1,183.05 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,225.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,258.34 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,362.30 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,369.47 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,398.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,398.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,398.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,398.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,434.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,434.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,434.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,592.54 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,640.71 | ↓ -24% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,712.87 | ↓ -20% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,758.44 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,792.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,132.85 | ↓ -1% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,509.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,868.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,281.43 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Small bowel endoscopy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,948.20 | $69.76 – $2,597.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $157.80 | $72.90 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,310.60 | $76.74 – $1,300.05 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,565.00 | $76.74 – $1,206.70 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,294.80 | $76.74 – $983.24 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,358.20 | $76.74 – $723.27 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,280.00 | $76.74 – $983.24 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,947.80 | $76.74 – $983.24 |