Ghs electrostagmgraphy at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$33.00
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.
$55.00
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.
$5.65 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $564.22 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 | $5.65 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $17.24 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $18.95 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $19.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $21.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $21.56 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $22.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $22.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $22.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $22.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $23.08 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $25.37 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $27.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $34.63 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $34.76 | ↑ +5% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $34.76 | ↑ +5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $38.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $41.08 | ↑ +24% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $44.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $46.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $46.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $46.86 | ↑ +42% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $49.19 | ↑ +49% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $50.00 | ↑ +52% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $50.60 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $52.90 | ↑ +60% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $53.85 | ↑ +63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $139.61 | ↑ +323% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $153.02 | ↑ +364% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $156.63 | ↑ +375% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $161.09 | ↑ +388% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $161.10 | ↑ +388% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $161.10 | ↑ +388% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $164.09 | ↑ +397% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $365.23 | ↑ +1007% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $564.22 | ↑ +1610% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ghs electrostagmgraphy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,122.00 | $5.59 – $164.09 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,507.80 | $5.65 – $164.09 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $21.00 | $9.70 – $52.90 |