Fetal shunt placement w/us at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$4,827.60
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.
$8,046.00
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.
$271.42 with UPMC Health Plan vs $7,402.32 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $271.42 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $297.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $304.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $313.18 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $313.21 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $313.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $319.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $851.72 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $881.58 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,448.28 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,007.68 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,464.12 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,856.97 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,896.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,137.94 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,154.03 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,218.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,218.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,218.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,218.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,242.68 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,299.92 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,826.11 | ↓ -21% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,023.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $4,425.30 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $4,425.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,949.90 | ↑ +3% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5,632.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $6,436.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6,839.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $6,839.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $7,402.32 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Fetal shunt placement w/us at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,034.40 | $160.04 – $1,465.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,034.40 | $296.24 – $3,242.68 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,034.40 | $287.68 – $3,242.68 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,034.40 | $289.24 – $3,242.68 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,034.40 | $304.23 – $3,242.68 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,034.40 | $287.11 – $892.40 |