Fetal non stress test at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$640.80

Cash price

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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.

$1,068.00

Gross charge

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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.

$19.25 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $982.56 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $19.25 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $19.25 ↓ -97%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $22.75 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $25.95 ↓ -96%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $27.24 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $27.69 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $29.82 ↓ -95%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $105.76 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $131.35 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $179.50 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $196.74 ↓ -69%
Aetna of PA Medicare $201.38 ↓ -69%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $207.11 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare Medicare $207.13 ↓ -68%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $207.13 ↓ -68%
Aetna Medicare $210.97 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $260.18 ↓ -59%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $384.48 ↓ -40%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $400.88 ↓ -37%
Aetna EBR FI $416.52 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $418.66 ↓ -35%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $420.22 ↓ -34%
Aetna EBR ASO $427.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $427.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $427.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $427.20 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $440.61 ↓ -31%
InterGroup PPO $534.00 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $536.86 ↓ -16%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $590.07 ↓ -8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $747.60 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $805.29 ↑ +26%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $854.40 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $907.80 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $907.80 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $982.56 ↑ +53%

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Fetal non stress test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $366.60 $19.25 – $210.97
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $897.00 $5.66 – $210.97
UPMC Altoona Altoona $307.20 $4.72 – $409.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $356.40 $18.38 – $534.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $752.40 $6.18 – $1,065.90
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $752.40 $6.18 – $3,000.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $846.00 $19.25 – $246.53
UPMC Northwest Seneca $266.40 $19.25 – $201.38

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