Duplex scan unilateral study 93986 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$880.80
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.
$1,468.00
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.
$77.26 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,350.56 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 | $77.26 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $94.88 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $104.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $106.45 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $109.48 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $109.49 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $109.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $111.52 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $131.12 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $131.12 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $154.96 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $157.82 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $176.77 | ↓ -80% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $185.56 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $188.62 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $203.14 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $235.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $259.14 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $315.75 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $347.05 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $473.62 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $513.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $528.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $572.52 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $575.46 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $587.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $587.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $587.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $587.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $638.58 | ↓ -28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $734.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,027.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,174.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,247.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,247.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,350.56 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Duplex scan unilateral study 93986 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,207.20 | $76.53 – $179.87 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $571.80 | $77.26 – $209.15 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $888.00 | $77.26 – $186.08 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $493.80 | $76.53 – $658.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $406.20 | $36.58 – $609.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $375.60 | $85.76 – $532.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $375.60 | $103.55 – $532.10 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $395.40 | $77.26 – $527.20 |