Brach/thor cath 3rd at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$4,970.40
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.
$8,284.00
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.
$332.28 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $9,571.54 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 | $332.28 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $332.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $381.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $392.69 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $447.97 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $470.23 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $478.00 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $514.79 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $947.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,646.97 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,982.24 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,230.76 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,247.33 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,313.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,313.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,313.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,313.60 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,142.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4,142.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,691.30 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,764.84 | ↓ -4% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $5,167.34 | ↑ +4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $5,524.47 | ↑ +11% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5,798.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $6,381.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $6,627.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $7,041.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,041.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $7,398.49 | ↑ +49% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $7,621.28 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $9,571.54 | ↑ +93% |
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Brach/thor cath 3rd at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $6,694.20 | $332.28 – $1,631.43 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $8,350.20 | $332.28 – $1,646.97 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $15,733.20 | $332.28 – $1,646.97 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,760.80 | $332.28 – $1,646.97 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,533.40 | $302.07 – $4,711.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,135.00 | $383.63 – $9,539.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,135.00 | $407.79 – $6,734.26 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $6,828.00 | $332.28 – $9,104.00 |