Ascenda two piece catheter at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$43,096.20
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.
$71,827.00
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.
$5,741.23 with Aetna vs $72,272.24 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $5,741.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $7,010.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $12,928.86 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $16,520.21 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $23,514.24 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $23,702.91 | ↓ -45% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $23,702.91 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $23,843.73 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $24,299.07 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $25,857.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $28,012.53 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $28,156.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $28,730.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $28,730.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $28,730.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $28,730.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $31,490.79 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $31,933.48 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $35,913.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $35,913.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $46,783.02 | ↑ +9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $47,900.41 | ↑ +11% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $50,278.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $57,461.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $61,052.95 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $61,052.95 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $66,080.84 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $72,272.24 | ↑ +68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Ascenda two piece catheter at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $28,797.60 | $6,943.99 – $36,941.87 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $80,733.00 | $7,010.12 – $75,639.78 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $26,949.60 | $6,943.99 – $46,783.02 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $22,632.60 | $7,166.99 – $30,176.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $28,797.60 | $7,010.12 – $46,783.02 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $30,548.40 | $6,943.99 – $6,943.99 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $28,797.60 | $5,219.30 – $46,783.02 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $25,665.60 | $6,416.40 – $38,498.40 |