Contrast x-ray of ankle at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$514.80
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.
$858.00
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.
$110.49 with UPMC Health Plan vs $789.36 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 | Commercial | $110.49 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $124.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $154.44 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $268.23 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $308.88 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $318.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $334.62 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $336.34 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $343.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $343.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $343.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $343.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $349.26 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $357.50 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $360.75 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $367.68 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -29% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $374.53 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $379.57 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $418.26 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $429.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $471.90 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $471.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $483.11 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $560.15 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $600.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $686.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $724.67 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | Commercial | $729.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $729.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $789.36 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Contrast x-ray of ankle at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,098.80 | $33.00 – $374.53 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $896.40 | $36.02 – $2,006.79 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $896.40 | $36.02 – $1,269.90 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $896.40 | $36.02 – $2,006.79 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $765.60 | $245.64 – $421.63 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $896.40 | $36.02 – $2,006.79 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2,649.60 | $107.18 – $374.53 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $896.40 | $36.02 – $2,006.79 |