Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$4,509.60
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.
$7,516.00
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.
$42.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $6,914.72 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $42.90 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $42.90 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $50.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $57.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $60.71 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $61.71 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $66.46 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $553.79 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $610.44 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,312.63 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,766.08 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,902.49 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,047.63 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,365.10 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,705.76 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,742.23 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,931.24 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,946.27 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,006.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,006.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,006.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,006.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,547.67 | ↓ -21% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,758.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4,823.34 | ↑ +7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5,261.20 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $5,286.66 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,411.37 | ↑ +20% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,565.47 | ↑ +23% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +23% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,669.06 | ↑ +26% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $6,012.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $6,388.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6,388.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $6,914.72 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,045.20 | $42.90 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $6,583.20 | $42.90 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $9,483.60 | $33.00 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,938.80 | $42.90 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,778.20 | $27.50 – $5,037.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $9,796.20 | $36.02 – $13,877.95 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $9,796.20 | $36.02 – $13,877.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $5,562.00 | $42.90 – $7,416.00 |