Colposcopy w/biopsy of cervix 57455 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$837.60
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.
$1,396.00
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.
$111.85 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,553.60 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.
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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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $111.85 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $111.85 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $132.18 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $150.79 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $158.29 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $160.90 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $173.28 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $267.33 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $271.42 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $276.31 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $297.49 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $304.51 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $313.18 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $313.21 | ↓ -63% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $313.21 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $319.01 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $454.52 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $502.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $544.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $547.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $558.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $558.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $558.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $558.40 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $698.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $734.10 | ↓ -12% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $773.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $896.70 | ↑ +7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $977.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,035.73 | ↑ +24% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,116.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,186.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,186.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,200.88 | ↑ +43% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,284.32 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,553.60 | ↑ +85% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Colposcopy w/biopsy of cervix 57455 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,590.60 | $111.85 – $931.20 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $111.85 – $319.01 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $57.00 | $47.50 – $310.31 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $615.60 | $129.13 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $615.60 | $129.13 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $615.60 | $129.13 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $615.60 | $111.85 – $892.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,084.80 | $111.85 – $993.28 |