Emg needle test 1-extremity at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$178.20
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.
$297.00
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.
$33.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $378.14 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $33.00 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $33.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $39.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $44.49 | ↓ -75% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $46.70 | ↓ -74% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $47.47 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $51.13 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $61.68 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $106.92 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $115.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $115.83 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $116.42 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $118.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $118.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $118.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $118.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $119.60 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $126.06 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $129.03 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $132.71 | ↓ -26% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $132.72 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $132.72 | ↓ -26% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $148.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $180.82 | ↑ +1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $188.24 | ↑ +6% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $199.07 | ↑ +12% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $206.90 | ↑ +16% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $207.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $237.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $252.09 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | Commercial | $252.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $252.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $273.24 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $277.08 | ↑ +55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $279.34 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $378.14 | ↑ +112% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Emg needle test 1-extremity at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $568.20 | $33.00 – $200.79 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $622.20 | $21.00 – $233.48 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $222.60 | $22.93 – $315.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $122.40 | $25.78 – $195.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $222.60 | $22.93 – $315.35 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $249.60 | $33.00 – $199.07 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $222.60 | $22.93 – $204.82 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $222.60 | $22.93 – $204.90 |