Ghs fb removal - incisional at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$471.00
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.
$785.00
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.
$71.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $4,281.72 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.
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 Medicaid | $71.50 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $71.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $84.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $96.39 | ↓ -80% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $101.19 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $102.86 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $110.77 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $282.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $306.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $307.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $314.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $314.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $314.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $314.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $361.54 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $392.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $549.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $628.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $667.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $667.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $722.20 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $736.75 | ↑ +56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,422.14 | ↑ +202% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,445.68 | ↑ +207% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,584.55 | ↑ +236% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,621.93 | ↑ +244% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,668.12 | ↑ +254% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,668.28 | ↑ +254% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,668.28 | ↑ +254% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,699.17 | ↑ +261% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,131.49 | ↑ +353% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,296.95 | ↑ +388% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,471.31 | ↑ +425% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,854.47 | ↑ +506% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,309.63 | ↑ +603% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,281.72 | ↑ +809% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ghs fb removal - incisional at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,182.40 | $71.50 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $451.20 | $71.50 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,031.60 | $71.50 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,184.80 | $65.00 – $4,246.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,674.80 | $82.55 – $3,789.30 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,693.20 | $68.25 – $2,325.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,674.80 | $82.55 – $3,789.30 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,097.80 | $71.50 – $2,246.66 |