Electrocorticography durng sx at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$832.80
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.
$1,388.00
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.
$161.21 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,891.90 with Aetna — 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 | $161.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $249.84 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $417.90 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $485.86 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $491.99 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $499.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $540.75 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $541.32 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $544.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $555.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $555.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $555.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $555.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $658.88 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $694.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $694.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $724.19 | ↓ -13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $750.57 | ↓ -10% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $763.40 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $763.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $971.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $988.32 | ↑ +19% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,110.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,179.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,179.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,276.96 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,891.90 | ↑ +127% |
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Electrocorticography durng sx at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $643.80 | $159.69 – $420.02 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $829.20 | $161.21 – $1,073.09 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $955.80 | $13.11 – $1,274.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $881.40 | $13.72 – $1,611.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $881.40 | $13.89 – $1,248.65 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $953.40 | $159.69 – $4,196.50 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $881.40 | $13.89 – $1,611.00 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $881.40 | $13.72 – $1,611.00 |