Appl modality 1/> areas paraffin bath 97018 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$198.60
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.
$331.00
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.
$4.33 with Aetna vs $304.52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $4.33 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.60 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $6.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $7.80 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $8.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.34 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $9.49 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $10.23 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $28.79 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $45.15 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $71.83 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $78.62 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $96.20 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $96.56 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $119.16 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $121.46 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $129.09 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $129.31 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $129.75 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $132.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $132.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $132.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $132.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $144.30 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $165.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $165.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $231.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $264.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $281.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $281.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $304.52 | ↑ +53% |
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Appl modality 1/> areas paraffin bath 97018 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $80.40 | $6.60 – $46.41 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $91.20 | $6.60 – $52.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $87.60 | $6.60 – $45.15 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $103.20 | $6.00 – $137.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $24.60 | $5.62 – $387.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $73.80 | $5.91 – $98.40 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $90.60 | $6.60 – $46.98 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $24.60 | $3.94 – $148.00 |