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Established Patient Office Visit (level 1) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$118.20
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.
$197.00
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.
$19.03 with Aetna vs $171.12 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $19.03 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $22.00 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $22.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $26.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $29.66 | ↓ -75% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $31.13 | ↓ -74% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $31.65 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $34.04 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $34.08 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $36.08 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $41.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $63.91 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $63.91 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $66.96 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $72.54 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $72.91 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $74.02 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $74.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $74.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $75.06 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $93.00 | ↓ -21% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $93.00 | ↓ -21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $93.63 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $99.13 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $100.53 | ↓ -15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $130.20 | ↑ +10% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $148.80 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $150.79 | ↑ +28% |
| Humana | Commercial | $158.10 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $158.10 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $171.12 | ↑ +45% |
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Established Patient Office Visit (level 1) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $108.60 | $22.00 – $153.85 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $100.20 | $22.00 – $150.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $22.00 – $136.85 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $122.40 | $22.00 – $173.40 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $186.60 | $33.36 – $118.15 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $174.60 | $6.00 – $232.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $83.40 | $21.00 – $125.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $84.00 | $19.64 – $70.40 |