Critical Care (first 30 to 74 minutes) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,153.20
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.
$1,922.00
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.
$166.79 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,768.24 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $166.79 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $166.79 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $192.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $197.12 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $224.87 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $236.04 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $239.94 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $258.41 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $387.98 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $556.25 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $582.06 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $645.30 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $654.34 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $691.92 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $749.58 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $751.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $753.42 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $768.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $768.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $768.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $768.80 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $824.06 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $843.50 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $864.20 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $867.52 | ↓ -25% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $867.60 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $867.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $876.35 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $883.66 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $961.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,314.53 | ↑ +14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,345.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,537.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,633.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,633.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,768.24 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Critical Care (first 30 to 74 minutes) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,476.40 | $166.79 – $883.66 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,918.20 | $166.79 – $883.66 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,768.80 | $166.79 – $883.66 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,577.00 | $166.79 – $883.66 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,460.60 | $151.63 – $3,280.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,087.80 | $159.21 – $1,631.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,304.00 | $192.57 – $3,264.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,185.60 | $159.21 – $553.28 |