Diagnostic anoscopy & biopsy at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$209.40
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.
$349.00
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.
$53.22 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,696.28 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $53.22 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $62.82 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $125.64 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $136.11 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $136.81 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $139.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $139.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $139.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $139.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $153.96 | ↓ -26% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $174.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $178.51 | ↓ -15% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $191.95 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $191.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $206.19 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $239.06 | ↑ +14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $244.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $279.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $296.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $296.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $309.28 | ↑ +48% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $321.08 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,052.05 | ↑ +402% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,153.11 | ↑ +451% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,180.32 | ↑ +464% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,213.93 | ↑ +480% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,214.04 | ↑ +480% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,214.04 | ↑ +480% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,236.52 | ↑ +491% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,355.76 | ↑ +1503% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,696.28 | ↑ +1665% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Diagnostic anoscopy & biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,235.80 | $53.22 – $2,094.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $217.60 – $4,217.85 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $52.72 – $1,634.95 |
| WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital | Lebanon | not published | $1,101.92 – $4,396.00 |