Egd remove lesion snare 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

$4,464.60

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.

$7,441.00

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.

$208.28 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $6,845.72 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $208.28 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $208.28 ↓ -95%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $246.16 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $280.81 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $294.76 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $299.63 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $322.69 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $736.75 ↓ -83%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,134.32 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,434.31 ↓ -68%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $1,692.62 ↓ -62%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $1,855.21 ↓ -58%
Aetna of PA Medicare $1,898.98 ↓ -57%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,953.05 ↓ -56%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,953.23 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,953.23 ↓ -56%
Aetna Medicare $1,989.40 ↓ -55%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $2,131.49 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2,316.61 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $2,471.31 ↓ -45%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $2,678.76 ↓ -40%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $2,854.47 ↓ -36%
Aetna EBR FI $2,901.99 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $2,916.87 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $2,976.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $2,976.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $2,976.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2,976.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $3,309.63 ↓ -26%
InterGroup PPO $3,720.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $4,281.72 ↓ -4%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $5,208.70 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $5,952.80 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $6,324.85 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $6,324.85 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $6,845.72 ↑ +53%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $2,978.40 $208.28 – $1,989.40
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,251.80 $208.28 – $1,989.40
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UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,675.80 $189.35 – $2,234.40
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UPMC Cole Coudersport $642.60 $198.82 – $1,072.14
UPMC East Monroeville $3,055.20 $208.28 – $4,073.60

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