Aortic dysfunction/dilation at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$9,324.60
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.
$15,541.00
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.
$864.43 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $10,178.88 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 | $864.43 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,263.64 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,334.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,374.06 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,385.02 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,417.70 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,458.07 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,458.21 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,458.21 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,485.21 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,840.24 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,991.52 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,760.37 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,899.58 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,872.40 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,883.18 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,983.04 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,314.96 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $4,337.09 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,425.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,425.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,425.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $4,425.60 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,812.84 | ↓ -48% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5,532.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $6,085.20 | ↓ -35% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $6,085.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,744.80 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $8,851.20 | ↓ -5% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $9,404.40 | ↑ +1% |
| Humana | Commercial | $9,404.40 | ↑ +1% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $10,178.88 | ↑ +9% |
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Aortic dysfunction/dilation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $9,243.00 | $864.43 – $1,551.65 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $9,101.40 | $864.43 – $1,551.65 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $8,846.40 | $856.27 – $11,795.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $9,243.00 | $856.27 – $1,458.21 |