Bone imaging multiple areas at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,524.60
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.
$2,541.00
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.
$90.75 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,337.72 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $90.75 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $90.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $107.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $122.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $128.43 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $130.55 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $140.60 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $209.74 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $358.54 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $392.98 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $402.25 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $413.71 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $421.41 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $450.90 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $516.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $606.79 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $647.81 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $703.53 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $812.60 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $914.76 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $942.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $990.99 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $996.07 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,016.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,016.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,016.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,016.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,218.91 | ↓ -20% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,270.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,778.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,032.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,159.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,159.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2,337.72 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Bone imaging multiple areas at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,228.80 | $65.50 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,228.80 | $65.50 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,228.80 | $65.50 – $614.19 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $559.20 | $90.75 – $895.01 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,228.80 | $65.50 – $617.50 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,228.80 | $65.50 – $1,088.79 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,168.20 | $64.00 – $482.36 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,228.80 | $57.50 – $412.81 |