Extrnl counterpulse, per tx at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$585.60
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.
$976.00
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.
$100.00 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,670.09 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 | $100.00 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $113.36 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $113.36 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $115.01 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $126.06 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $129.03 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $132.71 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $132.72 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $132.72 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $133.97 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $135.18 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $152.82 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $160.42 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $163.07 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $175.62 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $305.18 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $335.43 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $351.36 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $380.64 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $382.59 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $390.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $390.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $390.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $390.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $408.70 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $449.21 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $488.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $613.05 | ↑ +5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $683.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $780.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $829.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $829.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $897.92 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,081.08 | ↑ +85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,670.09 | ↑ +185% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Extrnl counterpulse, per tx at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,424.40 | $100.00 – $160.42 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $543.60 | $99.06 – $161.87 |