Aluminum - quest at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$179.40
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.
$299.00
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.
$23.85 with UPMC Health Plan vs $275.08 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $23.85 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $25.18 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $26.14 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $26.75 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $27.52 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $27.52 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $27.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $28.03 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $38.74 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $38.74 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $39.11 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $45.79 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $49.71 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $52.23 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $54.83 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $55.73 | ↓ -69% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $60.02 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $79.01 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $105.82 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $107.64 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $116.61 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $117.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $119.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $119.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $119.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $119.60 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $134.34 | ↓ -25% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $149.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $158.73 | ↓ -12% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $166.74 | ↓ -7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $209.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $223.30 | ↑ +24% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $239.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $254.15 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $254.15 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $275.08 | ↑ +53% |
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Aluminum - quest at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $158.40 | $21.24 – $49.24 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $110.40 | $23.68 – $49.71 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $189.60 | $25.18 – $54.83 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $178.20 | $22.00 – $54.98 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $319.20 | $25.18 – $425.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $316.20 | $9.19 – $474.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $128.40 | $25.23 – $181.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $128.40 | $25.23 – $181.90 |