Gi inhouse confirmation 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

$529.20

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.

$882.00

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.

$7.59 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $811.44 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 $7.59 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.59 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.83 ↓ -98%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $8.97 ↓ -98%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $9.33 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $9.68 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $9.91 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.19 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $10.20 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $10.20 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.23 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $10.38 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.74 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $10.92 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $11.76 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $17.41 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $18.41 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $29.26 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $39.19 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $58.78 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $59.81 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $61.75 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $82.69 ↓ -84%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $317.52 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $343.98 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $345.74 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $352.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $352.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $352.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $352.80 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $441.00 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $617.40 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $705.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $749.70 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $749.70 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $811.44 ↑ +53%

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Gi inhouse confirmation at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $178.80 $7.59 – $18.23
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $67.80 $7.59 – $18.41
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $649.80 $6.90 – $18.41
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $144.60 $7.59 – $18.41
UPMC Altoona Altoona $172.80 $6.90 – $230.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $58.80 $3.41 – $88.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $52.80 $6.90 – $74.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $67.80 $6.14 – $90.40

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