Brcassure comprehensive panel-sendout at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$2,287.20
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.
$3,812.00
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.
$1,120.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $7,877.71 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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| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,120.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,152.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,248.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,254.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,280.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,280.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,280.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,280.00 | ↓ -44% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,600.00 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,707.91 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,753.65 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $1,784.32 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1,784.32 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,803.57 | ↓ -21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,871.96 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,916.12 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,970.69 | ↓ -14% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,970.87 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,970.87 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,007.37 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $2,108.74 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,240.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2,405.59 | ↑ +5% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,525.14 | ↑ +10% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,560.00 | ↑ +12% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2,566.83 | ↑ +12% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,720.00 | ↑ +19% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,720.00 | ↑ +19% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,764.40 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,787.52 | ↑ +22% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2,944.00 | ↑ +29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,733.26 | ↑ +63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,861.70 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,599.89 | ↑ +145% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $5,882.31 | ↑ +157% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $7,877.71 | ↑ +244% |
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Brcassure comprehensive panel-sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,920.00 | $1,521.22 – $2,007.37 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,287.20 | $1,695.86 – $2,097.17 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,920.00 | $1,622.11 – $2,525.14 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,920.00 | $1,575.60 – $2,532.28 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,920.00 | $1,120.00 – $2,560.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,920.00 | $658.42 – $2,880.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,920.00 | $1,056.00 – $2,560.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,920.00 | $1,622.11 – $2,254.57 |