Endovenous mchnchem 1st vein at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$3,870.00
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.
$6,450.00
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.
$936.43 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $6,472.98 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $936.43 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,161.00 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,882.41 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,322.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,515.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,528.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,580.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,580.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,580.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,580.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,709.18 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,808.41 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,078.18 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,141.09 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,150.80 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,225.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,240.52 | ↓ -16% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↓ -16% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,300.84 | ↓ -15% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3,547.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,547.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,628.10 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,206.62 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,515.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,442.17 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | Commercial | $5,482.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,482.50 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,876.66 | ↑ +52% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $5,934.00 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $6,472.98 | ↑ +67% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Endovenous mchnchem 1st vein at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $5,231.40 | $927.60 – $3,300.84 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $7,108.80 | $936.43 – $3,668.10 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,102.20 | $936.43 – $3,300.84 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $4,769.40 | $936.43 – $6,359.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,092.80 | $927.60 – $4,364.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $4,201.80 | $1,969.96 – $6,472.98 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $4,885.80 | $936.43 – $3,300.84 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $2,865.00 | $139.23 – $6,356.47 |