Drain cath image guided visceral pq at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$7,281.60
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.
$12,136.00
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.
$190.71 with UPMC Health Plan vs $11,165.12 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 | $190.71 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $190.71 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $225.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $257.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $269.89 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $274.34 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $295.46 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $618.08 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,166.03 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,445.68 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,584.55 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,621.93 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,668.12 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,668.28 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,668.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,699.17 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,788.17 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,073.25 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,394.69 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,776.54 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,592.05 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4,247.60 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $4,368.96 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,733.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $4,757.31 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $4,854.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,854.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,854.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,854.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,279.16 | ↓ -28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $6,068.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $8,495.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $9,708.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $10,315.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $10,315.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $11,165.12 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Drain cath image guided visceral pq at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $7,281.60 | $190.71 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $7,719.00 | $190.71 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $9,792.60 | $190.71 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $7,281.60 | $190.71 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,876.60 | $173.37 – $5,168.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,637.20 | $220.18 – $5,152.70 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,637.20 | $234.05 – $5,152.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $7,281.60 | $190.71 – $9,708.80 |