Ear canal biopsy 69105 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,056.60
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.
$1,761.00
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.
$61.89 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,620.12 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $61.89 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $61.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $73.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $83.43 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $87.58 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $89.03 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $95.88 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $216.89 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $232.41 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $547.92 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $627.47 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $633.96 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $686.79 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $690.31 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $704.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $704.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $704.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $704.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $727.51 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $840.30 | ↓ -20% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $880.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $884.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $974.29 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,232.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,260.46 | ↑ +19% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,321.70 | ↑ +25% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,408.80 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,448.66 | ↑ +37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,482.83 | ↑ +40% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,496.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,496.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,525.06 | ↑ +44% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,525.20 | ↑ +44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,525.20 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,553.44 | ↑ +47% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,620.12 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ear canal biopsy 69105 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,211.40 | $61.89 – $1,553.44 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,306.80 | $61.89 – $1,553.44 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,795.20 | $61.89 – $1,553.44 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $94.80 | $19.40 – $2,325.85 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,353.00 | $61.89 – $1,511.08 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $818.50 | $1,503.88 – $3,504.04 |