Application multi layer compression below knee (both sides) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$369.60
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.
$616.00
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.
$27.80 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $893.38 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $27.80 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $27.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $32.85 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $37.48 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $39.34 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $39.99 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $43.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $87.76 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $126.88 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $140.79 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $153.72 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $154.31 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $157.95 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $162.45 | ↓ -56% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $162.46 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $162.46 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $186.33 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $221.76 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $240.24 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $241.47 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $246.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $246.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $246.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $246.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $300.94 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $308.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $431.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $444.74 | ↑ +20% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $492.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $515.64 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial | $523.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $523.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $566.72 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $595.58 | ↑ +61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $690.55 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $893.38 | ↑ +142% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Application multi layer compression below knee (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $322.80 | $125.40 – $165.47 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $765.00 | $126.88 – $165.47 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $554.40 | $30.32 – $169.98 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $405.00 | $126.88 – $165.47 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $347.40 | $126.88 – $463.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,000.80 | $54.28 – $1,501.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $570.60 | $33.10 – $808.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $298.20 | $126.88 – $2,094.25 |