Bx breast add lesion Ultrasound imag at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$3,181.80
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$5,303.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$72.73 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $4,878.76 with Multiplan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $72.73 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $72.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $73.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $85.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $98.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $102.93 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $104.63 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $112.68 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $376.74 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $682.44 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $710.72 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $751.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,089.96 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,263.73 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,459.66 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,692.41 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,909.08 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,068.17 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,078.78 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,121.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,121.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,121.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,121.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,189.50 | ↓ -31% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,651.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,651.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,712.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $4,242.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,507.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,507.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $4,878.76 | ↑ +53% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Bx breast add lesion Ultrasound imag at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,916.60 | $72.73 – $710.72 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,945.20 | $66.12 – $2,593.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,620.20 | $69.43 – $3,930.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,042.80 | $83.97 – $9,539.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $334.20 | $69.43 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,042.80 | $86.62 – $1,540.47 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,324.20 | $72.73 – $710.72 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,792.40 | $72.73 – $968.57 |