Clsd tx dist fib fx w/manip 27788 at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$3,130.20

Cash price

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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.

$5,217.00

Gross charge

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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.

$174.90 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $4,799.64 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $174.90 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $174.90 ↓ -94%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $206.70 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $214.04 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $234.60 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $235.80 ↓ -92%
Aetna of PA Medicare $240.13 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $246.97 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare $247.00 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $247.00 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $247.52 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $251.57 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $251.60 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $270.97 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $550.23 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $782.12 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,060.37 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $1,591.86 ↓ -49%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,712.65 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $1,845.64 ↓ -41%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1,878.12 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $2,034.63 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $2,045.06 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $2,086.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $2,086.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $2,086.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2,086.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $2,131.80 ↓ -32%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $2,471.73 ↓ -21%
InterGroup PPO $2,608.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $3,197.71 ↑ +2%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,651.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $4,173.60 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $4,434.45 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $4,434.45 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $4,799.64 ↑ +53%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Clsd tx dist fib fx w/manip 27788 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1,651.80 $174.90 – $793.81
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,726.80 $174.90 – $909.44
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $3,222.60 $174.90 – $931.20
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $1,768.80 $174.90 – $782.12
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,275.20 $159.00 – $3,033.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $2,541.00 $82.51 – $3,811.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,225.20 $201.93 – $1,735.70
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,333.20 $166.95 – $928.80

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