Imported lipodox inj at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$3,159.60
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.
$5,266.00
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.
$417.48 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,494.17 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 | CHIP | $417.48 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $470.68 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $494.96 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $542.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $555.30 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $560.59 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $571.12 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $571.17 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $571.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $581.75 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $604.27 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $644.94 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $947.88 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,026.87 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,032.14 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,053.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,053.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,053.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,053.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,224.39 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,241.54 | ↓ -61% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,316.50 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,448.15 | ↓ -54% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,448.15 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,639.73 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,662.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,843.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,106.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,238.05 | ↓ -29% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,238.05 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2,422.36 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,494.17 | ↓ -21% |
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Imported lipodox inj at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,018.20 | $470.68 – $581.75 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,474.40 | $470.68 – $674.99 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,244.60 | $528.86 – $571.17 |