Aminolevulinic acid delta at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$117.00

Cash price

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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.

$195.00

Gross charge

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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.

$13.20 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $169.28 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $13.20 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $13.20 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $15.40 ↓ -87%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $15.60 ↓ -87%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $16.26 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $16.87 ↓ -86%
Aetna of PA Medicare $17.27 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $17.76 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $17.77 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $17.77 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $17.80 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $18.09 ↓ -85%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $18.68 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $18.99 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $20.45 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $24.32 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $32.11 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $51.04 ↓ -56%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $66.24 ↓ -43%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $68.35 ↓ -42%
Aetna EBR FI $71.76 ↓ -39%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $72.13 ↓ -38%
Aetna EBR ASO $73.60 ↓ -37%
Cigna Commercial $73.60 ↓ -37%
Cigna New Business ASO $73.60 ↓ -37%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $73.60 ↓ -37%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $83.55 ↓ -29%
InterGroup PPO $92.00 ↓ -21%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $102.53 ↓ -12%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $107.70 ↓ -8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $128.80 ↑ +10%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $144.23 ↑ +23%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $147.20 ↑ +26%
Humana Commercial $156.40 ↑ +34%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $156.40 ↑ +34%
Multiplan PPO $169.28 ↑ +45%

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Aminolevulinic acid delta at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $124.20 $13.20 – $31.80
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $250.80 $13.20 – $32.11
UPMC Altoona Altoona $178.80 $12.00 – $238.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $192.60 $5.94 – $288.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $112.20 $10.69 – $149.60
UPMC East Monroeville $173.40 $12.00 – $231.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $193.20 $12.00 – $31.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $108.60 $13.20 – $17.77

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