Cystostomy cystotomy w/drainage 51040 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$6,178.80
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.
$10,298.00
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.
$289.60 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $9,474.16 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 | $289.60 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $289.60 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $342.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $390.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $409.83 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $416.60 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $448.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,040.78 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,410.81 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,827.82 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $2,003.40 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,024.01 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,050.66 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,109.06 | ↓ -66% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,109.25 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,109.25 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,148.31 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,011.09 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,269.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,491.13 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,707.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,016.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,032.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $4,036.82 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,119.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,119.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $4,119.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,119.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,675.39 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5,149.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $6,048.63 | ↓ -2% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,208.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $8,238.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $8,753.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $8,753.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $9,474.16 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cystostomy cystotomy w/drainage 51040 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,228.80 | $289.60 – $2,148.31 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,178.80 | $289.60 – $2,148.31 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,977.60 | $289.60 – $2,148.31 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,276.00 | $334.35 – $4,641.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $489.00 | $225.92 – $1,470.59 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,276.00 | $334.35 – $4,641.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,943.60 | $289.60 – $2,840.52 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $6,051.00 | $289.60 – $2,050.66 |