Electron microscopy diagnostic at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$2,607.60
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.
$4,346.00
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.
$75.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $856.70 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $75.90 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $75.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $89.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $102.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $107.41 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $109.19 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $117.59 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $124.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $148.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $236.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $316.23 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $332.28 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $355.83 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $359.97 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $361.82 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $369.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $369.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $369.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $369.20 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $429.13 | ↓ -84% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $461.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $474.34 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $498.26 | ↓ -81% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $646.10 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $667.29 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $728.90 | ↓ -72% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $738.40 | ↓ -72% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $784.55 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Commercial | $784.55 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $798.91 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $817.76 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $841.05 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $841.13 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $841.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $849.16 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $856.70 | ↓ -67% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Electron microscopy diagnostic at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $554.40 | $75.90 – $856.70 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $578.40 | $75.90 – $856.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,864.00 | $21.00 – $856.70 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,203.80 | $75.90 – $856.70 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,422.80 | $17.50 – $3,230.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $2,085.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,472.40 | $22.93 – $1,500.25 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,137.60 | $69.00 – $1,516.80 |