Egd lesion ablation at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$6,005.40
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.
$10,009.00
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.
$844.93 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $9,208.28 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 | $844.93 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $973.70 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,692.62 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,801.62 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,855.21 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,898.98 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.05 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -67% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,444.47 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,476.31 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,727.59 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,834.18 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,273.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,603.24 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,795.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,903.51 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,923.53 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,003.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,003.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,003.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $4,003.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,910.42 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5,004.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $5,504.95 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $5,504.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,006.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $8,007.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $8,507.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $8,507.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $9,208.28 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Egd lesion ablation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,349.80 | $836.96 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,862.60 | $844.93 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $10,185.00 | $844.93 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,854.80 | $844.93 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,675.80 | $836.96 – $2,234.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $5,790.00 | $652.52 – $8,685.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $435.60 | $201.25 – $1,192.92 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,504.60 | $844.93 – $4,672.80 |