Brachytx isodose intermed at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,948.80
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.
$3,248.00
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.
$94.58 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,988.16 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $94.58 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $203.96 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $203.96 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $241.05 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $273.62 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $274.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $288.64 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $293.41 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $315.99 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $316.69 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $317.24 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $326.63 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $358.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $366.42 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $366.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $376.89 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $376.92 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $376.92 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $383.90 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $424.85 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $549.64 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,169.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,266.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,273.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,299.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,299.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,299.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,299.20 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,624.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,655.34 | ↓ -15% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,076.59 | ↑ +7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,273.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,598.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,760.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,760.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2,988.16 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Brachytx isodose intermed at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $384.00 | $93.68 – $383.90 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,820.40 | $94.58 – $383.90 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,248.60 | $93.68 – $1,664.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $991.80 | $145.24 – $1,405.05 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $991.80 | $145.24 – $2,076.59 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $991.80 | $145.24 – $562.56 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $991.80 | $76.36 – $906.06 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $991.80 | $92.74 – $349.00 |