Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$3,190.20
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.
$5,317.00
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.
$591.77 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,891.64 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.
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 | $591.77 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $617.91 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $677.26 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $693.24 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $712.98 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $713.05 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $713.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $726.25 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $957.06 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,486.07 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,712.06 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,914.12 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,985.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,073.63 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,084.26 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,126.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,126.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,126.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,126.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,292.76 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,295.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,658.36 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,658.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,924.35 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,924.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,439.16 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,721.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $4,253.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,519.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,519.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $4,891.64 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,656.60 | $444.00 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,000.60 | $591.77 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,453.20 | $471.66 – $2,402.71 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,000.60 | $570.04 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,647.20 | $364.36 – $3,750.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,647.20 | $514.90 – $3,750.20 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,353.60 | $591.77 – $1,804.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,521.20 | $598.76 – $713.05 |