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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, with contrast) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$5,191.20
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.
$8,652.00
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.
$318.66 with UPMC Health Plan vs $7,959.84 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $318.66 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $349.26 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $355.15 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $355.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $357.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $367.68 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $374.53 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $419.72 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $459.93 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $478.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $502.60 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $510.89 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $550.22 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $770.30 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $959.98 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,330.62 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,542.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,781.95 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,066.09 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,646.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,672.94 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,114.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,374.28 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,391.58 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,460.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,460.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,460.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,460.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,326.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6,056.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $6,921.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,354.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $7,354.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $7,959.84 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, with contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,530.80 | $316.41 – $3,585.30 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $5,313.60 | $283.82 – $7,970.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,004.00 | $320.89 – $11,339.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,145.60 | $293.97 – $3,039.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,542.20 | $341.40 – $3,389.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,178.60 | $148.12 – $6,041.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,854.80 | $338.22 – $4,044.30 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,699.20 | $267.41 – $2,265.60 |