CT heart w/evaluation of calcium without contrast at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$120.00
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.
$200.00
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.
$62.52 with UPMC Health Plan vs $455.63 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.
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 | $62.52 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $62.52 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $72.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $73.89 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $78.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $78.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $78.40 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $78.57 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $80.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $80.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $80.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $80.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $84.29 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $86.12 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $88.15 | ↓ -27% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $88.48 | ↓ -26% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $89.94 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $90.66 | ↓ -24% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $90.67 | ↓ -24% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $90.67 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $92.34 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $96.09 | ↓ -20% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $96.87 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $107.43 | ↓ -10% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $140.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $160.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $170.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $170.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $184.00 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $226.82 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $262.98 | ↑ +119% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $303.75 | ↑ +153% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $330.12 | ↑ +175% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $352.19 | ↑ +193% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $455.63 | ↑ +280% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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CT heart w/evaluation of calcium without contrast at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $120.00 | $62.52 – $124.92 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $120.00 | $41.74 – $142.64 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $120.00 | $62.52 – $107.43 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $120.00 | $34.78 – $160.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $127.20 | $13.56 – $280.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $126.00 | $58.21 – $168.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $127.20 | $19.80 – $330.12 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $120.00 | $62.52 – $118.50 |