CT guidance for needle placement at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$2,808.60
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.
$4,681.00
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.
$147.44 with Aetna vs $4,306.52 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 | $147.44 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $174.66 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $174.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $206.41 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $235.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $247.17 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $251.25 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $270.59 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $422.51 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $468.73 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,088.68 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,222.37 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,365.73 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,417.25 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,636.98 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,685.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,825.59 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,834.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,872.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,872.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,872.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,872.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,898.01 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,340.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,340.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,455.48 | ↓ -13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,276.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,744.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,978.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,978.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $4,306.52 | ↑ +53% |
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CT guidance for needle placement at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,065.20 | $174.66 – $572.21 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,179.20 | $174.66 – $545.03 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,498.00 | $122.70 – $665.36 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,235.00 | $174.66 – $468.73 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,565.40 | $102.25 – $2,087.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $914.40 | $133.95 – $1,295.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $979.20 | $146.14 – $1,305.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $914.40 | $49.60 – $1,840.10 |