Ablation of upper extremity nerves rf at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,164.00
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.
$1,940.00
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.
$18.77 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $315.56 with Multiplan — 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 | $18.77 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $44.08 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $48.55 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $54.29 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $61.74 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $62.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $72.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $84.30 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $109.06 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $123.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $133.77 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $134.46 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $137.20 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $137.20 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $137.20 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $137.20 | ↓ -88% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $171.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $188.65 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $188.65 | ↓ -84% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $240.10 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $263.39 | ↓ -77% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $274.40 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $288.69 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Commercial | $291.55 | ↓ -75% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $291.55 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $295.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $303.92 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $303.94 | ↓ -74% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $303.94 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $309.57 | ↓ -73% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $315.56 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ablation of upper extremity nerves rf at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,989.40 | $18.59 – $309.57 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,976.60 | $18.77 – $309.57 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,157.80 | $18.77 – $309.57 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,242.80 | $18.77 – $309.57 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,268.40 | $18.59 – $1,691.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,408.20 | $35.90 – $2,112.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $961.20 | $48.55 – $1,361.70 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $961.20 | $48.55 – $1,361.70 |