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Diagnostic Mammogram (one breast) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$522.60
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.
$871.00
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.
$58.27 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $801.32 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $58.27 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $112.65 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $112.65 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $121.21 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $133.13 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $151.87 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $159.42 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $162.05 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $168.57 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $174.53 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $195.44 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $225.74 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $261.74 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $290.47 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $313.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $338.62 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $339.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $341.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $348.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $348.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $348.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $348.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $364.39 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $435.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $435.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $609.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $696.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $740.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $740.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $801.32 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Diagnostic Mammogram (one breast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $427.20 | $58.27 – $605.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $543.00 | $58.27 – $769.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $421.80 | $58.27 – $597.55 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $336.60 | $58.27 – $448.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $478.80 | $57.72 – $558.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $243.60 | $19.45 – $479.38 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $475.80 | $57.72 – $634.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $502.20 | $107.53 – $753.30 |