Insertion intravascular vena cava (ivc) access supervision & interpretation w/imaging guidance at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$5,160.00
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.
$8,600.00
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.
$1,548.00 with Aetna vs $18,377.29 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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| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,548.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,096.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $3,162.17 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,354.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,371.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,440.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,440.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,440.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,440.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3,625.84 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,076.58 | ↓ -21% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,300.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4,490.25 | ↓ -13% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $4,730.00 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $4,730.00 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4,823.34 | ↓ -7% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $5,286.66 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,411.37 | ↑ +5% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,565.47 | ↑ +8% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,669.06 | ↑ +10% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6,020.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $6,880.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $7,310.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,310.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $7,912.00 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $9,148.46 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $10,606.95 | ↑ +106% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $12,251.47 | ↑ +137% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $14,205.06 | ↑ +175% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $18,377.29 | ↑ +256% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Insertion intravascular vena cava (ivc) access supervision & interpretation w/imaging guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $5,160.00 | $2,482.14 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $11,923.20 | $2,502.27 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,418.00 | $931.20 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,867.80 | $2,594.16 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $6,817.80 | $3,132.34 – $9,090.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $9,498.60 | $1,016.56 – $13,456.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,911.00 | $882.88 – $3,625.84 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $9,498.60 | $1,016.56 – $13,456.35 |