Foam drg <=16 sq in w/border 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

$2,270.40

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.

$3,784.00

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.

$2.70 with Aetna vs $118.61 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $2.70 ↓ -100%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $5.40 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR FI $5.85 ↓ -100%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $5.88 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR ASO $6.00 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial $6.00 ↓ -100%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $6.00 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $6.00 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $7.50 ↓ -100%
InterGroup PPO $7.50 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $8.25 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $8.25 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $9.15 ↓ -100%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $10.50 ↓ -100%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $12.00 ↓ -99%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $12.75 ↓ -99%
Humana Commercial $12.75 ↓ -99%
Multiplan PPO $13.80 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $17.36 ↓ -99%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $22.36 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $54.26 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $58.22 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $59.04 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $77.97 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $79.07 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $83.83 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $118.61 ↓ -95%

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Foam drg <=16 sq in w/border at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $81.00 $10.49 – $87.74
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $9.00 $17.36 – $66.59
UPMC Altoona Altoona $7.20 $6.00 – $54.26
UPMC Hamot Erie $61.80 $17.19 – $22.36
UPMC Jameson New Castle $12.60 $8.32 – $54.26
UPMC Muncy Muncy $15.60 $11.19 – $23.92
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $19.00 $11.19 – $22.36
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $50.40 $11.19 – $24.70

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