Cath impl vasc access portal at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$428.40
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.
$714.00
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.
$16.30 with Aetna vs $656.88 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $16.30 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $57.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $60.33 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $83.84 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $88.67 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $128.52 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $202.36 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $205.20 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $257.04 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $271.01 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $274.82 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $278.46 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $279.89 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $285.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $285.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $285.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $285.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $357.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $357.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $392.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $392.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $412.23 | ↓ -4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $499.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $571.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $606.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $606.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $656.88 | ↑ +53% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $268.20 | $45.33 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $345.60 | $60.33 – $97.49 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $383.40 | $60.33 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $198.60 | $27.00 – $111.98 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $39.00 | $12.35 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,215.60 | $2.61 – $1,722.10 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $379.80 | $59.76 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $370.80 | $69.46 – $83.84 |