Collagen gel/paste wound fil at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$3,600.60
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.
$6,001.00
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.
$2.16 with Aetna vs $1,827.12 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 | $2.16 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $4.28 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.45 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $12.77 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $14.35 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $14.55 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $19.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $19.49 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $19.72 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $29.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $357.48 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $714.96 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $774.54 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $778.51 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $794.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $794.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $794.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $794.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $993.00 | ↓ -72% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $993.00 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,092.30 | ↓ -70% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,092.30 | ↓ -70% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,390.20 | ↓ -61% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,588.80 | ↓ -56% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,688.10 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,688.10 | ↓ -53% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,827.12 | ↓ -49% |
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Collagen gel/paste wound fil at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,191.60 | $4.28 – $18.53 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $86.40 | $4.45 – $115.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,434.40 | $2.33 – $4.76 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,434.40 | $2.33 – $4.91 |