Eeg over 1 hour 95813 - 26 at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$936.00

Cash price

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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.

$1,560.00

Gross charge

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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.

$105.63 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,435.20 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $105.63 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $128.56 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $128.56 ↓ -86%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $151.93 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $173.32 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $181.93 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $184.94 ↓ -80%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $199.17 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $277.85 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $304.54 ↓ -67%
Aetna of PA Medicare $311.72 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $320.60 ↓ -66%
United Healthcare Medicare $320.63 ↓ -66%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $320.63 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $322.36 ↓ -66%
Aetna Medicare $326.57 ↓ -65%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $331.18 ↓ -65%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $335.91 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $354.31 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $431.71 ↓ -54%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $474.50 ↓ -49%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $511.63 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $561.60 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $608.40 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $611.52 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $624.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $624.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $624.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $624.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $647.57 ↓ -31%
InterGroup PPO $780.00 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,092.00 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1,248.00 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,326.00 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $1,326.00 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $1,435.20 ↑ +53%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Eeg over 1 hour 95813 - 26 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $2,782.80 $104.63 – $344.65
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $595.80 $105.63 – $390.59
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,144.40 $53.34 – $400.76
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $552.00 $105.63 – $335.91
UPMC Altoona Altoona $470.40 $44.45 – $627.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $907.80 $56.45 – $1,611.00
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,100.40 $122.71 – $1,467.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $907.80 $56.45 – $1,286.05

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