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CT Scan of Abdomen and Pelvis (with contrast) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$6,108.60
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.
$10,181.00
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.
$289.48 with UPMC Health Plan vs $9,366.52 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $289.48 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $289.48 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $318.66 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $342.11 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $349.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $357.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $367.68 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $374.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $390.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $409.66 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $416.42 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $448.48 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $501.96 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $553.87 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,150.51 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,602.39 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,857.86 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,145.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,488.08 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,218.87 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,665.16 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,952.42 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,970.59 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,990.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $4,072.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,072.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,072.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,072.40 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5,090.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,126.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $8,144.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $8,653.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $8,653.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $9,366.52 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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CT Scan of Abdomen and Pelvis (with contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,436.60 | $289.48 – $7,701.85 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $5,897.40 | $283.82 – $8,846.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,884.80 | $231.28 – $12,586.80 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $5,263.80 | $289.48 – $7,457.05 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $5,632.80 | $289.48 – $7,510.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $6,945.60 | $210.72 – $8,103.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,985.60 | $252.48 – $4,229.60 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,737.80 | $192.73 – $3,650.40 |