Chemo adm cns w/lmbr punct at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$762.60
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.
$1,271.00
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.
$84.33 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,173.36 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 | Managed Medicaid | $84.33 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $84.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $99.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $113.69 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $119.34 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $121.31 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $130.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $171.72 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $180.63 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $295.96 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $324.39 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $332.04 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $341.50 | ↓ -55% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $341.53 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $341.53 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $347.85 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $457.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $495.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $498.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $508.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $508.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $508.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $508.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $518.73 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $576.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $584.07 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $635.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $771.39 | ↑ +1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $782.24 | ↑ +3% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $801.35 | ↑ +5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $889.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,016.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,080.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,080.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,169.32 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,173.36 | ↑ +54% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Chemo adm cns w/lmbr punct at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $554.40 | $84.33 – $347.85 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $893.40 | $76.66 – $1,191.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,903.40 | $97.36 – $4,113.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $742.20 | $56.83 – $346.36 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,903.40 | $97.36 – $4,113.15 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,135.80 | $84.33 – $1,514.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,119.00 | $84.33 – $332.04 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,903.40 | $97.36 – $506.98 |